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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (540)	3/10/2005 4:39:02 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I continue to think the president's inaugural address, suggesting as it did that he was on a mission to expunge all political tyranny from the globe, and asserting that our nation's survival depended on this utopian project, was a rather crazy speech, weirdly Wilsonian and at odds with conservatism's ancestral knowledge of the imperfectability of this world and the inability of politics to heal all that wounds us. (Take it away, FreeRepublic.) Samuel Johnson was a genius of literature, but he knew his politics: "How small of all that human hearts endure / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!" But some things can be healed, and precisely because the endeavor is not utopian but practical. The Iraq project was not utopian: it was a high-risk gut call, a gamble that was also an investment, and it was motivated in part by a belief that progress is possible when right action is boldly taken. By continuing a laser-like focus on the area in which so much of our nation's energies had been so deeply invested, by staying the course, by sticking to his timetable for elections, President Bush, with his grit, has produced an outcome that is deeply impressive, moving, and cause for world-wide joy. I'm not sure, and I wouldn't swear to it, but doesn't it sound just a little as if Peggy is admitting maybe our President was right in his inaugural address? that progress is possible when right action is boldly taken. By continuing a laser-like focus on the area in which so much of our nation's energies had been so deeply invested, by staying the course, by sticking to his timetable for elections, President Bush, with his grit, has produced an outcome that is deeply impressive, moving, and cause for world-wide joy. Doesn't she sound in awe of what President Bush has accomplished? Strangely...it is what he predicted he would do, and she thought he was bragging.