Thursday, June 24, 2010

Wills on McChrystal & Obama

Garry Wills enters the conversation to reiterate a point that he made very firmly last December: it's time to get out of Afghanistan. I gave the benefit of the doubt to Obama's decision, but it doesn't look very promising to me, regardless of the McChrystal issue. Can Petraeus do better? Lots of bodies and reputations have been buried in Afghanistan.

Move!

Everyone who works in an office ought to read this. Sometimes my staff must think that I have St. Vitus Dance because I move around a lot, taking out papers, getting drinks, etc. that I could leave until later. I use the downstairs rather than upstairs can. "Is All That Sitting Really Killing Us?" addresses these issues. Interesting.