I've been reading about the letters being exchanged between Senator Clinton's office and the Pentagon recently. The latest is a letter from Def. Sec. Gates trying to convince Sen. Clinton that his undersecretary Eric Edelman didn't mean to impugn her patriotic honor.
In Mr. Edelman's letter (his response to her suggestion for congressional oversight of the pentagon's war policies) he scolded Sen. Clinton saying "that public discussion of withdrawal 'reinforces enemy propaganda that the U.S. will abandon its allies in Iraq' and exacerbates sectarian tensions there." (MSNBC, July 26) (I happen to agree with Mr. Edelman) Unfortunately the partisan monster has reared it's ugly head and now we are having a debate between a woman who got her had slapped and is miffed and a guy who got a little hot under the collar and fired a round into the air to prove his strength. What we have is a classic case of two children fighting over who's fault it was. If I were Secretary Gates, I'd have just put them both in time out.
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