Richard Cohen Misunderstands Jim Webb

I decide, in violation of common sense and my normal habit, to spend a minute reading Richard Cohen. Immediately I realize why I never read Richard Cohen:

Richard Cohen - How's Your War? - washingtonpost.com

I got the strong sense, reading this column, that Cohen was aware of, but simply did not comprehend, the fact that Webb's son is serving in Iraq right now. And that therefore, Bush's belligerently "caring" question about his son's welfare had a certain, say, visceral quality. Cohen apparently thinks that Webb was just acting up to make a useful, if rude, political point.