I can’t possibly wrap my mind around this enough for a long diatribe, but I would like to submit my nomination for one of the most idiotic things I’ve read in an already silly season.
Anti-war camp wants Gates out
Arms control advocates and anti-war activists are ratcheting up pressure on President-elect Barack Obama to dump Defense Secretary Robert Gates and replace him with a more strident anti-war voice.
I’ll need the help of some readers here, please. Don’t believe your own lying eyes from my quoted text… click through the link provided and come back here to tell me if I read that correctly. Did someone capable of operating a keyboard actually rise up on their hind legs and peck out the phrase, “a more strident anti-war voice” to be the Secretary of Defense?
You can be an anti-war president. That’s fine. But if you’re going to go to the trouble of paying somebody to be the Secretary of Defense (who, incidentally, was actually called the Secretary of War in olden days) wouldn’t you want someone who was actually versed in the ways of war and ready to carry out that duty just in case you changed your mind later?
Ok. That’s enough. I’m going to go bang my head on the wall now. Wake me when it’s over.