Karen Tumulty should dispense with the faux-outrage over the unremarkable exchange between Barbara Boxer and Condoleeza Rice where Boxer said, "You're not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, within immediate family." Tumulty titles her post "Womb Wars" and wonders if Boxer wasn't insinuating that Rice's lack of progeny rendered her incapable of carrying out her job. Not quite. Instead, Boxer's comment is fits firmly within the rich history of attacks levied on the Bush administration and Congress for pursuing wars of choice despite lacking personal experience in combat or immediate family members exposed to its ravages. It's a variant of the "chickenhawk" charge, not chauvinism.
