Word: gens
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...hipster-parent movement. When one of my kids requests the Magnetic Fields on the iPod, I swell with pride as fathers of another era did when their sons completed touchdown passes. And if it's easy to criticize Pollack's preciousness, it's because, like a good, self-aware Gen Xer, he does it for you. "I wonder," he writes, "what Ariel Dorfman, Primo Levi and Arthur Koestler, men who wrote memoirs about actual struggle, would think about the genre of whiny new-parent hand-wringing...
...casualty of this maneuvering will be Gen. George Casey, the president's nominee to be Army Chief of Staff. Casey doesn't look like a great chief in the making - he is no Edward "Shy" Meyer or Eric Shinseki - and his performance in his confirmation hearing last week was at times underwhelming. But Casey isn't in trouble with Democrats for his lack of finesse; he's in trouble for having too much. Some Democrats think he should have stood up months ago and proclaimed Iraq policy a disaster. They say he should have stepped out of the chain...
...Secretary of Defense's dining room is modest, with a couple of inlaid wooden cabinets along the walls, several flags with streamers from various military campaigns, and a bust of Gen. Douglas MacArthur in one corner. The table can seat only 24, which isn't very grand for the man who controls the most powerful military in the world...
...Afghanistan at the request of the senior commanders there, and Gates said today that the DOD is looking at ways to speed up the arrival of troops destined for Iraq. A senior military official said that behind the scenes the Pentagon is preparing in case the new Iraq commander, Gen. David Petraeus, asks for even more...
...Still, one shouldn't confuse Gates's apparent humility with weakness. He bristled when a reporter suggested that he had given the military a "blank check," saying directly that there was no such thing. He also gave a lengthy explanation of his support of U.S. Army Gen. George Casey to be Chief of Staff of the Army - despite opposition from the likes of Republican Senator John McCain - topping it with the implicit gibe that Casey was the "first choice of the professional military." Gates, a former Sovietologist, might fit the same description that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko once made...