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Posted at 5:18pm on May 23, 2008 Mark Kleiman needs to update his list of wars.

Internal coherence would be nice, too.

By Moe Lane

In his haste to frame John McCain's rather brutal response to Barack Obama over the GI Bill -

Oh, let's establish something. I don't approve of the chickenhawk argument, even when it favors my side; I don't think that Senator McCain should have used it, and he shouldn't do it again. In this I am showing internal consistency; unlike, say, Mark Kleiman (more examples here).

- anyway, in Kleiman's haste to frame the narrative in terms away from Obama's incoherence in national security affairs, he has managed to completely overlook that Obama was not, in fact, even remotely too old to serve in Operation Desert Storm. And if the first Gulf War is now such an actual Good War (it seems to have become one once the Republican who started it was safely out of office), by the chickenhawking rule of thumb Kleiman should even now be asking why Obama didn't serve in that conflict, given that the junior Senator from Illinois so obviously supported our fighting it:

I would ask Kleiman why he failed to go after Obama for this lapse in Kleiman's moral judgment, except that his blog doesn't actually allow comments [turns out that he does, but you have to sign up] I don't feel like listening to the rationalization. Mind you, I already know why he went after McCain.

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