On to Iran?
Salon
by Walter Shapiro
01/11/07
Throughout the long century to come, any future leader contemplating sending American troops into combat should carefully watch a tape of George W. Bush's speech to the nation Wednesday night -- and ponder its underlying lessons. This was Bush deflated, his arrogance temporarily placed in a blind trust, looking grayer than ever with his brow furrowed with lines of worry. How humiliating for Bush to be forced to say with a stony face, 'The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people -- and it is unacceptable to me.' This is what happens to a commander in chief when his vision of victory becomes a struggle for survival, when confident talk of a slam dunk on the way in is replaced by a clamor to slam the door on the way out. This is what happens to a president who is losing a war -- and who is reduced to begging for more time, another chance, to set things right...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/01/11/bush_speech/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+Shapiro
by Walter Shapiro
01/11/07
Throughout the long century to come, any future leader contemplating sending American troops into combat should carefully watch a tape of George W. Bush's speech to the nation Wednesday night -- and ponder its underlying lessons. This was Bush deflated, his arrogance temporarily placed in a blind trust, looking grayer than ever with his brow furrowed with lines of worry. How humiliating for Bush to be forced to say with a stony face, 'The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people -- and it is unacceptable to me.' This is what happens to a commander in chief when his vision of victory becomes a struggle for survival, when confident talk of a slam dunk on the way in is replaced by a clamor to slam the door on the way out. This is what happens to a president who is losing a war -- and who is reduced to begging for more time, another chance, to set things right...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/01/11/bush_speech/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+Shapiro
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