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Merry Christmas, from Peggy Noonan
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Merry Christmas, from Peggy Noonan

This season of yuletide, Peggy Noonan may be thinking about gifts and the birth of Jesus Christ. But she is also thinking about the nuclear annihilation of the United States.

The Wall Street Journal columnist writes on the "incompetence" of the Obama administration:

I’m worried ... that lines of traditionally assumed competence are being dropped. The past few weeks I can’t shake from my head this picture: The man with the football—the military aide who carries the U.S. nuclear codes, and who travels with the president—is carrying the wrong code. He’s carrying last month’s code, or the one from December 2012. And there’s a crisis—a series of dots on a radar screen traveling toward the continental U.S.—and the president is alerted. He’s in the holding room at a fundraiser out west. The man with the football is called in and he fumbles around in his briefcase and gets the code but wait, the date on the code is wrong. He scrambles, remembers there’s a file on his phone, but the phone ran out on the plane and he thought he could recharge in the holding room but there’s no electrical outlet. All eyes turn to him. “Wait—wait. No—uh—I don’t think that’s the code we use to launch against incoming from North Korea, I think that one takes out Paris!”

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