Editorial: Good speech; no good options

Posted on December 3, 2009 |

• Editorial

By Angelo Lynn

In listening to President Barack Obama outline his strategy for sending 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan on Tuesday night’s televised address, we found ourselves wanting to believe his rationale and his assessment, but what we recognized was that it was little more than a well-delivered political speech carefully calculated to cause the president the least amount of political damage.

That was a disappointment.

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