Hagel's Dialectics

With a creative and snarky headline, Mickey Kaus provides a Marxian analysis of Sen. Chuck Hagel's synthesis -- support for the war -- and his antithesis -- opposition to the war. No idea whether he or an editor wrote the headline. But it bears noting that headlines can say things the story does not, and editors have a professional norm of writing such clever titles -- sometimes complementing the story, and sometimes changing its meaning.

The headline: "Hagel's Dialectics: Anti-surge hyperbole from a pol who voted for the war."

The story:

Hagel's hyperbole - By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine

... So when Sen. Chuck Hagel calls Bush's latest plan "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam, if it's carried out" that seems a bit odd. If the surge fails, surely the 'most dangerous foreign policy blunder' will be not the surge but the initial invasion of Iraq. Hagel voted for that, remember.