Response to Emails About President's Speech

Whew! The emails are coming in regarding my last post on the President's Speech, "President Responds to Study Group."

The purpose of my blogs in general are to muse on business and the security industry. I am not writing a slanted political blog one way or the other (I have enough outlets for that). However, I felt that the President's speech last night was particularly important because of its historical significance.

If you can, put politics and personal thoughts of the war aside for one moment and consider the foreign relations import of the speech and what it stood for.

My attempt in the previous post was to point out that we (as a society) can avoid acting rash and emotional and rather take a strong analytic approach. Find out what the problem is, where it stems from, and try to address it from all aspects (military, policing, economics, and religion). It is a bold approach to foreign relations, to have a group (of the stature of the Iraq Study Group) propose a plan of action for the nation, and for the President to acknowledge these suggestions (in a time of war) and act upon them. History, decades from now, will view this as not a power play by a sitting President but rather an admission that other views are relevant and act publicly on this admission.