Quote of the Day II

"Freedom by its nature cannot be imposed. It must be chosen."
--President Bush, speaking to the U.N. today, unintentionally conceding his entire foreign policy a failure.

Besides the Iran issue, the speech also focused on the problems between Israel, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories and the urgent need to find a solution. Some of the things he was saying seemed to make sense... once you got past the fact that these were hardly new concepts, and that his administration scrapped the U.S. policy of being an honest broker in those conflicts in favor of a one-sided policy, that his administration ignored the historic opportunity to create a Palestinian state in the immediate 9/11 aftermath and use the international capital it afforded us to even further get the region to reach agreements, and that the situation has been ignored in general (and will continue be to ignored) because we have been focused on our Iraqi quagmire. Also, his call for Muslims to marginalize the extremists in their ranks is the right sentiment, but rang hollow from a man who has done so much to inflame said extremism.

But if you ignored all that, then it was a nice little speech.