Thursday January 11, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

President Bush's speech hit all the right notes.
But nothing in his presentation was new.

The challenge is not what needs to be done.
The challenge is making certain that it gets done.

How do you actually make certain that the recommendations are put in place? How do you insist on reform, on de-Bathization, on strengthening the provinces, on insisting on enabling provinces to grow democratically and economically?

The first step is stopping the killing of one another with impunity.
That is what needs to be thought out, carried out, addressed.
That is what seems to be missing from this not-so-new strategy.