Dear Editor,
Richard Cohen is wrong when he writes that George W. Bush is a flip-flopper.
Our President obviously has a memory problem, so it's not fair to expect him to remember what he says from month to month, or even day to day.
Actually, when it comes to nation building, the charge is downright false. So far, the only thing that's been happening in Afghanistan and Iraq is destruction. There might be some people who'd call it "creative destruction," but in the case of Iraq, the plan was never to create or build an independent nation. Rather, Iraq is supposed to be where we locate our new military bases, probably because the island of Guam isn't big enough to handle everything we're moving out of the U.S.
The formal terminology for this strategy is "force realignment," but while GWB obviously tries hard to follow Shakespear's advice to "speak the speech I pray you as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue," bureaucratic jargon is not his forte, and he doesn't need any more things to trip him up.