[oldbill]

This is rather scary - almost as bad as the pizza-munching campus kibutzers of the Clinton White House.

We need someone with real life experiences in these jobs, not political junkies. Notice the lack of military experience for an agency that will determine our involvement in international disputes?

[Jay777]

Hey, some of us Gen X'rs have military experience. Don't write us off so easily old timer.

[LibertarianInExile]

To my reading, O'Sullivan comes across as an airhead. Of course she worked for Moynihan. But as a general rejoinder to your 'scary' comment--these are bureaucrat advisors on the NSC, not people actually doing anything at some government office. They are foreign policy wonks, not people who do squat, and the President generally keeps his own counsel on that sort of thing, fortunately.

I think the article was slanted as if these people were fooling with national policy like kids in a playpen. Cheap shot at Bush. But what would you expect from a reporter that Daily Kos and Arianna Huffington laud for her 'accuracy?' And if you want to damn a whole generation for f'in around without 'real world experience' for being too young, start with Linzer herself--she's only 36. Does that make her writing less pungent?