What did President Bush say in his speech?
President Bush’s speech about Iraq, delivered to the war college on May 24, has elicited a great deal of comment. However, if you want to find out what he said, you had better read the speech itself (see below), rather than the comments. Bush didn’t say very much in that speech, except for pledging to dismantle Abu Ghraib Prison, but the storm of comment might make you believe that he had announced a major policy change. Never have so many written so much about so little (for example here and here ). In fact, as some have noted, the speech is more noteworthy for what it didn’t say. [more] by Moderator @ 06:47 PM CST [Link] Tuesday, May 25, 2004 The moral terrain of the Middle Eastern battlefield The problem that advanced, Western powers like America and Israel face in dealing with less sophisticated enemies on the battlefield turns out not to be our much-bemoaned sensitivity to casualties. That sensitivity varies in inverse proportion to the perceived stakes. If anything, our sensitivi
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