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by FRED KAPLAN
[ from Slate ]
Has an American president ever delivered such a bafflingly impertinent speech before the General Assembly as the one George W. Bush gave this morning ?
Here were the world's foreign ministers and heads of state, anxiously awaiting some sign of an American concession to realism‹even the sketchiest outline of a plan to share not just the burden but the power of postwar occupation in Iraq. And Bush gave them nothing, in some ways less than nothing. Continued…
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by JACK BEATTY
[ from The Atlantic ]
With one phrase Dick Gephardt has defined the issue to be decided next November. Can a "miserable failure" of a president win re-election? Bush's victory would testify to a civic failure more dangerous to the American future than any policies implemented or continued during a second Bush term. A majority would have demonstrated that democratic accountability is finished. That you can fail in everything and still be re-elected president. Continued…
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