Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Contracts as a Political Football
That being the case, the President has committed to this policy. It does no good, for example, for the Baltimore Sun to call for Paul Wolfowitz’s resignation over this relatively trivial matter.
This is State Department stuff, anyway. It’s not a Pentagon thing. But it seems like the White House is content to allow long-time neo-con lightning rod Wolfowitz to take the heat. Seems like a reasonable decision to me, for the same reason quarterbacks hand off the football to a linebacker rather than make a bruising run themselves.
Why let your star player take the bruising?
This is State Department stuff, anyway. It’s not a Pentagon thing. But it seems like the White House is content to allow long-time neo-con lightning rod Wolfowitz to take the heat. Seems like a reasonable decision to me, for the same reason quarterbacks hand off the football to a linebacker rather than make a bruising run themselves.
Why let your star player take the bruising?
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