SO MUCH for the much-promised Kerry foreign policy speech. In Cincinnati today, John Kerry basically repeated his stump speech, with no sustained discussion of Iraq, the war on terror, or foreign policy in general. An astonishingly weak performance. Is Kerry so wrapped around the axle on Iraq that he’s now incapable of talking about Iraq in a serious and sustained way?

Still, it does seem that Kerry has finally come down, this week, on one side of a debate that really does have only two sides. He has decided he’s against the war in Iraq. It was “the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.”