When the Rich Die Last Like the Rabbits Running

The suddenly chatty President today held a long news conference where he said the same things he's been saying for years--stay the course, fight them there, democracy rah rah rah, he could have had WMDs...someday. But he also said this about the Middle East:

The final history in the region has yet to be written.

That is good news, no? Shouldn't we hope the leader of the free world thought we were eons away from the writing of "final history"?