"If you wanted to figure out what was happening over the last four years, you would have been infinitely better off paying attention to [newspaper correspondents'] writing than to what the president or his top generals were saying. If we fail to achieve our goals in Iraq — which the administration defines as a "unified, stable, democratic and secure nation" — it won't be the fault of the ink-stained wretches or even their blow-dried TV counterparts. To argue otherwise deflects blame from those who deserve it, in the upper echelons of the administration and the armed forces. Perhaps that's the point."-Max Boot- an arch-neocon- knocking down the absurd spin which we all know is coming- that a U.S. defeat in Iraq is all "the media"'s fault.
Bush's speech tonight was a case of "too little, too late." Had a surge happened, say, in early 2004, it may have actually made a difference, but that ship has sailed. "Failure in Iraq would be a disaster for the United States" indeed- and it will also be the first line of Dubya's obituary.
Posted by Stephen Silver at January 11, 2007 01:21 AMIt is not too late, other than politically for Bush.
He had his head in the sand for the past two years, and Boot is correct, that did more damage than the Abu Graib Fetish Society, er MSM, but that is not to take either off the hook.
Posted by: J. Lichty at January 11, 2007 04:47 PM