The views of others here notwithstanding, according to those who really know — that would be the editors at Le Monde — Obama’s speech, with its flashes of “insolence and combativeness,” was a dramatic reprise of the successful rhetoric that served him so well in 2008. How would they know? They surveyed a wide variety of analysts, from those at the Huffington Post to the experts at NPR, and according to Le Monde, they were all “convinced” by the speech. So that’s settled.