Which is it General? Either you were lying then or your're lying now. Not a good place to be. I was going wobbly on Rumsfeld on this until the facts started coming in. Now it's just political posturing and it's dangerous. If the officer corp starts selecting the Sec Def or having even a modicum of control over who fills that post we are in a heap of trouble. We have civilian mastery of the military for very good reason and we abandon or diminish it at our peril.
That state of the DE blogosphere
I've been holding off on commenting on the imbroiglio over a posting at DelawareLiberal for Veteran's Day for several reasons. First and foremost is the situation at home (more on that later) but also because I wanted to get some distance from it to be sure I was seeing things clearly. I've been reading DV's stuff since before he joined Jason on his site and I've noticed a change in tone which seems to have accelerated of late. I enjoyed going to the old site because it was one the few places I could engage someone with different ideas than mine without things crashing headlong into Godwin's law within 3 posts. In short, DV acted in good faith and was rather deferential to his visitors which I greatly appreciated. Since pulling the old blog and posting on DelwareLiberal, I've noticed that ground has eroded rather quickly. I've never agreed with anything Jason posted but found him a book end to DelaThought's knee jerk partisan right wingery. Fi...
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