America's leadership

You already see the major theme of the speech. Advisers told me earlier today that the President wants to explain, argue really, why America alone can change the course of the world. "The only way to control our destiny is by our leadership..." He also has raised the spectre of radical Islam. The argument seems to be that it's bigger than Iraq and we've come too far in the struggle to turn back now. This goes beyond linking Iraq to 9/11.


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