Keep waiting as I was not there, and I doubt you were either.
Answer me this: do you believe all headlines you read as the source is immaterial?
The headline meant nothing to me, it rarely does which is why I normally read the article as I did this one.
I don't give a rat's patootie who reported it (it was multiple sources) or what the headline is/was. I don't care about the political slant of the author who wrote it up, either. It's the
actual quote and circumstances that bug me.
I care about an Air Force General, who is in the nuclear chain of command, boosting his ego by bragging he can slow down an order to launch a nuclear attack. That is the sort of thing that instills doubt in our enemies' minds about our resolve to use our nuclear deterrence, a critical component of MAD (which, thanks to Democrats since Reagan, is still all we have).
So call me naive if you wish, but I am far from it. That fat-headed General made things more dangerous, not less.