This was the speech I’ve been waiting for during long months of wishing I was governed by Tony Blair. It articulates nearly everything that needed to be articulated about why we’re doing what we’re doing, and why it needs to be done. Someone up there gets it.
And yet those same voices who complained for years about our coddling of dictatorships the world over–and rightly so–are beside themselves with rage now that there’s an administration who’s actually doing something about it. No, they’re not doing everything, and they’re not doing it perfectly, but it’s a start, and a good one.