Bush's Lethal Way Forward

Good Morning. A couple of new items today...

• The Bush speech is on a few people's minds. Overly so? It was anticlimactic, poorly written and not quite the change in direction advertised. See "A Calamity Foretold"
  

• Why Ali Allawi, an Iraqi ex-minister, isn't proposing a more realistic alternative: "A Real Blueprint for Peace?"
  

• Thomas Friedman Smugwatch

More in the Daily Journal. Thanks for reading.pt