Noam
11-23-2003, 11:37 PM
Bush Conquers England
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Friday, November 21, 2003 12:01 a.m.
Bush Conquers England
"Liberation is still a moral goal."
We suspect that President Bush's London visit this week will go down as one of the most memorable of his tenure, and not because of the protests everyone had predicted. Rather, it will be remembered for the speech he delivered Wednesday in which he eloquently laid down the principles behind the war on terror, and especially the Iraq portion of that war.
In its timing and character, Mr. Bush's speech at Whitehall echoed Ronald Reagan's exposition of America's Cold War principles during his famous speech to Parliament in 1982. That speech too was delivered at a moment of enormous Western debate and protest. Soviet Communism, Mr. Reagan nonetheless correctly foretold at Westminster, will be consigned to "the ash heap of history." Middle East dictatorships, Mr. Bush said this week, have the opportunity to join the "democratic revolution that has reached much of the world." ....
Interesting year ahead of us (till 11.2.2004).Americans are pretty much divided on their attitiude towards Bush (hair split like the Florida chads).....('Time' Black Eye issue this weekend)
Beautiful excercise of democracy--to see whether the American people will choose to DEFEAT FANATIC ISLAM or will decide to cower and risk another 9/11 (the nuclear kind)...
I wouldn't want to live in any other period of time!
I am guessing the market will tell us, come April, the outcome. I am betting that if we take out the Jan-March highs in the 4-6 quarter(2004)--Bush wins.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Friday, November 21, 2003 12:01 a.m.
Bush Conquers England
"Liberation is still a moral goal."
We suspect that President Bush's London visit this week will go down as one of the most memorable of his tenure, and not because of the protests everyone had predicted. Rather, it will be remembered for the speech he delivered Wednesday in which he eloquently laid down the principles behind the war on terror, and especially the Iraq portion of that war.
In its timing and character, Mr. Bush's speech at Whitehall echoed Ronald Reagan's exposition of America's Cold War principles during his famous speech to Parliament in 1982. That speech too was delivered at a moment of enormous Western debate and protest. Soviet Communism, Mr. Reagan nonetheless correctly foretold at Westminster, will be consigned to "the ash heap of history." Middle East dictatorships, Mr. Bush said this week, have the opportunity to join the "democratic revolution that has reached much of the world." ....
Interesting year ahead of us (till 11.2.2004).Americans are pretty much divided on their attitiude towards Bush (hair split like the Florida chads).....('Time' Black Eye issue this weekend)
Beautiful excercise of democracy--to see whether the American people will choose to DEFEAT FANATIC ISLAM or will decide to cower and risk another 9/11 (the nuclear kind)...
I wouldn't want to live in any other period of time!
I am guessing the market will tell us, come April, the outcome. I am betting that if we take out the Jan-March highs in the 4-6 quarter(2004)--Bush wins.