Can’t Make Everyone Happy
And when you try, you generally don’t make anyone happy. Right-left roundup starts with Politico: Dick Cheney slams Obama for projecting “weakness.”
Ralph Peters, NY Post: “Obama’s window dressing.” Peters examines the complex superficiality of the superficial complexity behind tonight’s punt.
Brooks at NYT: “Clear, Hold and Duct Tape.” A shrug of support for getting it half right.
Herbert at NYT: Surrender would be the courageous choice.
Fred Barnes at the Weekly Standard with some understatement:
You can’t fight a successful war unless the commander-in-chief is fully committed to it. So President Obama’s chief task in his speech Tuesday night on Afghanistan is to make it absolutely clear that he is.
This won’t be easy.
OK, now for some wishful thinking. David Paul Kuhn at RCP:
Barack Obama has to show his heart is in the fight. Tonight’s Afghan address must explain but also inspire. The professor-in-chief must now preach to the public about why Afghanistan is still the “good war.” Why it is still worth the cost. Why the long war must be longer. Why we can win – and what exactly is to be won. The public will be listening to Obama’s explanations but, perhaps more importantly, it will also be searching for the passion beneath his prose. Spock must find his inner Kirk.
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Topics: Afghanistan, Obama
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:30 am Comments (1) on Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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December 1st, 2009 at 2:57 pm
The public will be listening…
No. The media will be listening. The public will be watching NCIS.