Wednesday, September 06, 2006

The Speech   [Jonah Goldberg]

What I liked the most about it was that the White House finally started offering details, specifics and examples. So much of Bush's rhetoric has been high-flying and abstract. There's a place for all of that, but when you fail to provide supporting facts, your opponents will provide theirs. The debates over torture and wiretapping have been either ethereal or focused on the mistakes like Abu Ghraib. In other words opponents could claim that the costs weren't equal to the unknown benefits. By making the benefits known, opponents are forced to answer whether they would have preferred that various terrorist attacks had never been thwarted.

09/06 02:43 PMShare