Flip. Flop.

Our bipolar president can't decide if we can or cannot win his war on terror.

“In this different kind of war, we may never sit down at a peace table,” Mr. Bush told the American Legion delegates. “But make no mistake about it, we are winning and we will win.”

The president’s unambiguous remarks today differed from those in an interview with Matt Lauer of the NBC News program “Today.” When Mr. Lauer asked him about the war on terrorism, Mr. Bush replied, “I don’t think you can win it.” The president went on to say, “I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.”

Wow, he sounded almost...French. And probably that's the closest to a clear-eyed view of the world from this preznit that we'll hear for a long time.