Britt's bold stroke

Britt sketches a Speech He'd Like to See in which Kerry issues a bold call that distinguishes him as a leader, as opposed to Bush as a manager (and a poor one at that).

I like the fact that Britt's speech puts boldness in the driver's seat, while allowing nuance room on the bus. But Britt would have Kerry call for increasing the number of troops in Iraq to 300,000 in order to get the job done. The problem is that I don't know what constitutes success in Iraq. Without that, there's no way to tell if adding troops just sinks us in further.

That aside, we could use some bold strokes about now. Plus, I enjoy the way Britt writes the speech.

(Note: There's one line that I believe would be too easily mis-taken: I think that when Britt says we should "put Iraq back the way it was before we broke it," he's referring simply to the infrastructure, not to the mad tyrrany of Sadistic Hussein.)