The vow to “end tyranny” in the world “seemed to me to land somewhere between dreamy and disturbing.”

The vow to “end tyranny” in the world “seemed to me to land somewhere between dreamy and disturbing.”

From the general tenor of this Wall Street Journal piece, however, it seems clear that Noonan, try as she might to give W the benefit of a doubt, is more disturbed than lulled by the soaring rhetoric.

Good old Peggy, a party-lining girl, is full of apologias and equivocations: she even defends that nameless White House advisor who disdained the “reality-based community“: she loyally avers “he meant that the administration sees history as dynamic and changeable, not static and impervious to redirection or improvement.” Yeah. Sure. But she doesn’t sound very reassured herself:

Citing the President’s declaration that “Renewed in our strength–tested, but not weary–we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom,” she avers:

“This is–how else to put it?–over the top. It is the kind of sentence that makes you wonder if this White House did not, in the preparation period, have a case of what I have called in the past ‘mission inebriation.’ A sense that there are few legitimate boundaries to the desires born in the goodness of their good hearts.”