He had been able to design his own life and he built around it the ideal version of the university interesting people, great books, global travel and a devil-take-the-hindmost attitude.
Throw in growing evidence that our devil-take-the-hindmost abandonment of Iraq is translating into that country becoming little more than an Iranian puppet state and the feeling is palpable: Confidence in presidential leadership is declining, both among the troops and those who truly support them.