Infinite MonkeysI know it's too much to hope for from the President's speech tonight, but what's called for is something like the Gettysburg Address. Short, to the point, and making clear that we must be dedicated to the great task remaining before us.
Posted by David at September 11, 2006 12:06 PMAnd, as with Lincoln, the subtext will include further centralization of government power and surrender of civil liberties.
F*** that. The great task remaining is to reject the notion that we can make ourselves safer by continuing to fight useless (and wholly unjustified) wars in the Middle East.
As James Fallows suggested in the Atlantic a couple of months ago, we should declare victory, and wrap things up. We've accomplished everything we reasonably can on a "wartime" footing, and it's time to stop pretending there is any more "victory" to be exacted from the "Global War on Terror" per se.
Of course, we're both asking for something that won't happen. Bush will spew a bunch of barely articulate feel-good-hang-in-there paragraphs that nobody other than political junkies will watch, everybody else will watch Monday Night Football and/or CSI reruns, and nothing meaningful will change.
Until November, when the Democrats take over one house of Congress and bring back sweet sweet gridlock.
Posted by: Monkey RobbL at September 11, 2006 03:04 PM