The dark prince By Joshua Micah Marshall House managers are hoping that deposing right-wing whipping boy Sidney Blumenthal will expose a hidden world of presidential dirty tricks.
Surgeons get to operate on real people with real appendicitis.
Firemen get to battle real blazes and save real people from danger. But G.I.s with operational specialties rarely get to employ their skills. So, yes, we took professional pride in our work. But neither were we squeamish about it. I'll never know how it feels to actually kill someone or to blow up a building with humans in it.