{"id":9581,"date":"2007-01-10T20:50:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T01:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9581.html"},"modified":"2007-01-10T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T01:50:05","slug":"the-new-way-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-new-way-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘New Way Forward’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m afraid I’ll be away from my computer at 9 (ET), and won’t be able to comment on the president’s national address until morning. But that’s no reason not to have an open thread on the big occasion.<\/p>\n

We don’t have to wait for Bush for all the details, though. In advance of the speech, the White House has already released a “fact sheet<\/a>,” which reportedly highlights the president’s new tactics for the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n

1. Let the Iraqis lead;
\n2. Help Iraqis protect the population;
\n3. Isolate extremists;
\n4. Create space for political progress;
\n5. Diversify political and economic efforts; and
\n6. Situate the strategy in a regional approach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, call me picky, but except for the additional 21,500 troops, all of these “new fundamental elements” sound an awful lot like the “old fundamental elements.”<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, how did the speech strike you? Was it persuasive? How do you think the typical American responded to what Bush had to say?<\/p>\n

Or is it too late to even matter anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m afraid I’ll be away from my computer at 9 (ET), and won’t be able to comment on the president’s national address until morning. But that’s no reason not to have an open thread on the big occasion. We don’t have to wait for Bush for all the details, though. In advance of the speech, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}