Hart on Defense
Via Unmedia, I run across a Q&A with Gary Hart on TAP which notes he's got a new book(let) coming out on the 4th of July. It looks worthwhile for my taste, although I'm not as convinced as Aziz that the interview reflects anything particularly muscular ... nor am I fully on board Hart's nomination for SecHomDef. Hart's got a sharp mind, I'll give him that, but his instincts, I'm not fond of anymore. His stated reservations for going into Iraq were more than a little worrisome in my mind and its not entirely clear that he's gotten over Vietnam Syndrome himself. Odd that I'd cite Hart's instinct given this quote, though:
Tenet's just resigned -- tell me what you think.If you want to make a million dollars, you should write the book on the unknown background of the Iraq War. It's a blockbuster. I think Tenet's in the middle of it. Chalabi's a player. Richard Perle, Wolfowitz. All these guys. I think we went to war for reasons that were not told to the American people. And it's all going to come out. There has been a conspiracy, a plot. It's a cesspool. Tenet knows a lot of stuff he's not telling. Why he did remain in his job after Sept. 11? Because of the White House. They couldn't fire him -- he knew too much.
But he just got fired, didn't he?
He quit. Huge difference. I think he quit, and he knows a lot of stuff. I have an instinct about these things.
Gary, you've written one too many spy novels.