Friday, January 24, 2003

The Christian Science Montinor carried a piece yesterday that's worth reading: Suzanne Nossel's State of the Union advice for Bush. Her argument is that Bush should be more attuned to the diplomatic failures of past SOTU's (putting North Korean in the "axis of evil" being a critical one). She rightly notes that the administration and its defenders seem to believe, erroneously, that giving signals that it cares about something called "world opinion" would be a sign of weakness.