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Originally posted by Gattigap
I read the text of the speech this morning. Gerson writes beautiful rhetoric. Would that Bush could deliver it well.
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On the pro-democracy stuff,
Yglesias points out that Bush gave essentially the same speech 14 months ago, criticizing our past policy for preferring stability to democracy, but hasn't done anything differently since then.
Noonan says:
- To the extent our foreign policy is marked by a division that has been (crudely but serviceably) defined as a division between moralists and realists--the moralists taken with a romantic longing to carry democracy and justice to foreign fields, the realists motivated by what might be called cynicism and an acknowledgment of the limits of governmental power--President Bush sided strongly with the moralists, which was not a surprise.
Indeed, not a surprise. But then why does he let the realists working for him keep doing things the same way? Where are the actions to match the words?
