John Lewis Gaddis on Bush's Grand Strategy

I have blogged on Gaddis before. (See February 8, 2004 entry for Gaddis' on Bush's first articulation of the grand strategy.) I heartily recommend this recent speech (given at Middlebury College in Vermont) by John Lewis Gaddis, professor of history at Yale and first to advocate the idea that Bush's war on terror, specifically, the pre-emptive war on the "axis of evil," is the first "grand strategy" of the 21st Century.

But, it's not all praise! It is a substantive, dispassionate, level-headed assessment of Bush's leadership failures and successes, his learning from mistakes, and the boldness of his vision, especially as it has been refined in his 2nd Inaugural Address.