I just stumbled across the final report of the Princeton Project on National Security. Reflects in great part some of the ideas presented in this space, although I am wary of some of its perk optimism. It seems that the world this project seeks to recapture has all but disappeared: the United States, sadly, is simply not the same country it was before 9/11 and Bush. And it will take more than one presidency to chage it.

Despite my expressed misgivings over the wisdom of troop withdrawal in this space, I woke up today somewhat dissapointed to this news. At the very least, the discussion of withdrawal could have forced the President to explain how his approach would provide real results. Instead, we get more of the pathological resistance to change that got us into this quagmire in the first place.