Odd Bush speech, in some ways. I'm baffled by the decision to put in so much about liberty. People want jobs; they want American troops to be able to get the hell out of Iraq. Americans will have liberty regardless of who's president; as regards the effort that's described as an effort to export liberty to the Middle East, undecided voters are, frankly, sick of it. But there it was. It was, in the language of a presidential speech, the foreign-policy stuff they talk about in think tanks -- just as much of the first half of the speech was a recitation of domestic-policy ideas from think tanks. Strange.