PA Cat @ 7: Good point!

wretchard @ 22: This is a lovely screen of doom, but I do have some quibbles with the details.

Obama did not afflict the country like some Biblical plague. The establishment brought him on themselves.

Plague or not it’s in the Bible: Golden Calf.

It’s disturbing that General McChrystal should criticize the President openly. Military men should not do that.

Well, he *didn’t* do it openly.

But, I’m not sure that a little open disagreement wouldn’t be better, as long as it’s clearly understood that losing the public argument is losing the job, possibly with a dishonorable discharge. That was after all McCain’s solution to torture – make it illegal, and expect people to break the law as necessary.

The system is supposed to ascertain the facts discreetly, rationally and consensually.

Big systems are blunt instruments, expectations of smooth functioning of any kind are inappropriate. The wheels of fate grind slowly, but exceedingly fine, and all that.