April 05, 2002

That Speech Again Is the

That Speech Again

Is the sky falling? Stephen Green says it isn't.

Robert Fisk says it is, but he's got a different set of criteria, I suspect. As Fisk spins it, Bush's remarks were decidedly unwobbly. Here's how he boils it down:

the White House... is to give the Israeli Prime Minister more time to finish his invasion, destroy the Palestinian infrastructure and dismantle the Palestinian Authority.

I agree with Fisk and VodkaPundit (how often can you say that?) that the actual speech wasn't as wobbly as the headlines made it sound. And I'm not at all surprised by this. It was a peculiar speech, though, a call for simultaneous advance and retreat. Usually, the backpedaling doesn't occur within the same speech.

(By the way, as Damian Penny points out, Fisk goes on record as the first Western commentator to defend Saddam Hussein's suicide bomber payments. Freak.)

Posted by Dr. Frank at April 5, 2002 06:17 PM | TrackBack