His logic, inferences are correct, but he just cannot bring himself to say "Bush is Right"

Each Vote Strikes at Terror
Walter Russell Mead/LA Times Original Article

The teleprompter providing President Bush with his second inaugural address had scarcely gone blank before American and European commentators turned to dismissing his calls for a "war against tyranny" and progress toward universal democracy as naive, dogmatic, overstated and a recipe for chaos in U.S. foreign policy.