dirty hippies

Atrios, utilizing his trademark, uh, panache, offers a very well-reasoned response to the small but vocal segment of “the Left” who are angry about President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet choices so far:

A couple months ago I reported that colleagues of torture-loving professor John Yoo at UC-Berkeley Law School were going after his tenure. The effort didn’t really go anywhere. But now, not content with one effort at sanction that won’t go anywhere, here comes the Berkeley City Council:
Berkeley’s City Council will delve into national policy again [...]

Read this sentence and tell me some dirty hippie didn’t write it:
Where possible, what the military calls kinetic operations should be subordinated to measures aimed at promoting better governance, economic programs that spur development, and efforts to address the grievances among the discontented, from whom the terrorists recruit.
That’s Defense Secretary Bob Gates in the new [...]