Who’s clueless now?

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Friday, October 30, 2009 - 5:18 PM Share

I apologize for the dumbass headline Foreign Policy's front page carried yesterday on my item about President Obama's visit to Dover Air Force Base. "Obama Has No Clue What War Is" was expressly not the point of what I was saying. The guilty party will be sentenced to attend a Joe Biden press conference, if the Geneva Convention allows that.

I mean, even our West Coast bureau complained about this. And rightly so. 

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6:03 PM ET

October 30, 2009

I think

The headline writer was trying to make the point that President Obama does not have the sort of storied and distinguished military careers that "ol blood and guts" George W Bush and Dick Chaney did.

 

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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