Noonan still doesn't like the Bush speech. Lots of good reasons. Best written paragraph:

Certain authoritarians and tyrants whose leadership is illegitimate and unjust have functioned in history as--ugly imagery coming--garbage-can lids on their societies. They keep freedom from entering, it is true. But when they are removed, the garbage--the freelance terrorists, the grievance merchants, the ethnic nationalists--pops out all over. Yes, freedom is good and to be strived for. But cleaning up the garbage is not pretty. And it sometimes leaves the neighborhood in an even bigger mess than it had been.

Problem with her piece is that while she correctly identifies the "hundreds of thousands" of gangsters and thugs released by freedom, she has nothing to offer but the French.