Panetta to Pentagon; Petraeus to CIA

As Obama's first term winds down, he's switching up some of the players in his administration: CIA chief Leon Panetta will reportedly be nominated to head the Department of Defense and General David Petraeus is his likely successor as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Shrug.

Quite literally everyone who would ever be seriously considered for either of those positions even by a Democratic president would support policies and strategies with which I disagree, so I'm never going to be thrilled by any selection. As far as these two go, could be worse.

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