Changing the Subject?

The President's speech was supposed to be justifying (and supporting) the decision to send 20,000 more troops to Iraq. Instead, half-way through:

Succeeding in Iraq also requires defending its territorial integrity – and stabilizing the region in the face of the extremist challenge. This begins with addressing Iran and Syria. These two regimes are allowing terrorists and insurgents to use their territory to move in and out of Iraq. Iran is providing material support for attacks on American troops. We will disrupt the attacks on our forces. We will interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria. And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.

The debate could quickly shift from whether or not to deploy more troops to the region to how aggressively we are going to confront Syria and/or Iran.