GWB made no carte blanche offer of troops, money, weapons, or anything close to that for people who want to be free.
"Help" can come in many forms. Verbal. Economic. Technology. Diplomacy. Medical. UN nudging.
People like Buckley (and other FR on this board) who claim we are biting off more than we can chew are simply projecting false thoughts that we will soon be sending troops and ammunition.
"GWB made no carte blanche offer of troops, money, weapons, or anything close to that for people who want to be free."
So what is different then than before he gave the speech? (Personally I think he was trying to establish as policy that put forward in "Making the Case for Democracy" by Nathan Sharansky which he was reading at the time but applying it not only to the Middle East but the entire world, with which I agree. We will find out in the State of the Union speech whether people feel mislead or not by what they read into the speech which is the danger.)