BARACK OBAMA, JOINT CHIEFS, ROBERT GATES ARE ALL QUEERS: Barack Obama and Bob Gates hastily announced this morning that they were going to scrap George W. Bush's massive plan for a long-range missile defense system in Eastern Europe in favor of a short- to medium-term new system that would be installed more quickly because THOSE ARE THE MISSILES IRAN IS BUILDING. Conservatives are reacting... let's see here... oh look, by going fucking insane. [NYT, National Review]