[cyncooper]

but this piece reminds me that she didn't write Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech, and I think she found that one a bit "grating" as well.

I agree and you may have put your finger on it.

I don't think she's jealous as others have speculated. I think she's giving her honest opinion, which just happens to be wrong. I am willing to be that she may have thought that Reagan line was grating at the time because, as is her problem here, she did not think it was an attainable goal.

I think she hasn't taken the Bush Doctrine seriously to date. This speech was an affirmation of and more explicit expounding upon that Doctrine which was first invoked after 9/11.

[9999lakes]

I love Noonan.

I read her stuff all the time, and find it to be --- what?
Sometimes insightful, sometimes thoughtful, always a little bit dreamy -- sort of train of thought.
And Sometimes dead wrong.


She's dead wrong on this.

[Just mythoughts]

"I don't think she's jealous as others have speculated. I think she's giving her honest opinion, which just happens to be wrong. I am willing to be that she may have thought that Reagan line was grating at the time because, as is her problem here, she did not think it was an attainable goal."

The interesting thing here, her writing is completely opposite of her "LIVE" response right after the speech, however, she did say she needed to 'think about it'.