SOTU Subtext

Blogcritics' RJ seems to think that what Bush was REALLY saying when he mentioned "promot[ing] peace in the broader Middle East" is that Syria's next... (Every major Bush speech includes some unexpected bugaboo -- sex slavery, steroids, etc. -- that kind of comes out of the blue and then after the speech quickly dissipates into oblivion. Syria's more of a recurring theme, but it does fit into a typical Bush pattern of misplaced emphasis.)