The always fun and loveable George Will had this to say about the President's big speech last Monday:

Mr. Madison's War

"The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place."
-- James Madison, Federalist 51

That was the crux of the president's Monday evening speech. It had a minimum of Jeffersonian dogmatism about the universal eligibility for democracy, and instead stressed hardheaded Madisonian measures to strengthen incentives for civilized behavior. His plan is to connect the interests of an Iraqi majority with genuinely Iraqi institutions of representation.

Wait, I missed the discussion of Jeffersonian dogmatism and hardheaded Madisonian measures in the President's speech. Must have been somewhere in there in between all the mentions of "evil-doers", "freedom," and "terror." I wonder if Will is slightly put off by the fact that the main person he's adressing, mainly the President, probably doesn't understand a thing he writes. Then again, that goes for a lot of things.