I really like Peggy Noonan

, but this drivel is beyond me. It is so far out in left field that I would not believe Ms. Noonan wrote it except she put her name on it. Hagel isn't an opportunist back stabber, he has "guts".

But there was Mr. Kerry, liberated by the death of a dream and for once
quite human as he tried to tell it the way he actually saw it. Took the mock
right out of me. Good for him, and for Mr. Hagel. I wonder if we are seeing
the start of a new seriousness.

Et tu Bruta?

You're a pro and I am not, but what hogwash.