WSJ Editor on Bush's Iraq Strategy: 'I Don't Think He Has To Adjust' [View All]

Think Progress 12/03/06

This morning on Fox News Sunday, Wall Street Journal editor Paul Gigot brushed
aside notions that the deteriorating situation in Iraq warranted a change in strategy
from President Bush. Gigot said, "I don't think he has to adjust" or "announce some
new grand strategy."

The key to success in Iraq, according to Gigot, is for the President to show "resolve"
and wrap "his arms around (Iraqi Prime Minister) Maliki."

Gigot, one of the primary media cheerleaders for the war in Iraq, finds himself
increasingly isolated. Even outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
acknowledged in a recent memo that "it is time for a major adjustment.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/03/wall-street-journal-iraq/

Of course Gidgit's priorities are certain to be more business leaning, and any actual
concern regarding the slaughter in Iraq is probably besides the point for him. And
with so many of the people he dines with making huge profits off of all this misery,
why would he want anything to change?