Did Lincoln play squash?

The top story on the New York Times site right now? Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat. Wow, that sucks. What else is going on....now here's a much more facsinating, insightful piece:

There, no matter how the war in Iraq was going or how many Democrats were calling for his head, Mr. Rumsfeld could uncork his deadly drop shot, leaving his foe helpless and himself triumphant, at least for a moment.

In some ways, squash offers a window into Mr. Rumsfeld’s complicated psyche, revealing much about his stubborn competitiveness and seemingly limitless stamina. Pentagon officials and employees say Mr. Rumsfeld’s play closely resembles the way he has run the Defense Department, where he has spent six years trying to break the accepted modes of operating.

I'm not saying that people in positions of power shouldn't have personal lives with hobbies, or even if such hobbies shouldn't be the subject of news stories. Why not? But the contrast between the two articles, which are given similar amount of space and attention, is pretty fucking weird. Especially Donny "my critics are Nazi appeasers" Rumsfeld's signature project, the war in Iraq, is not only making us less safer, but is a complete failure in its own right. Rumsfeld has helped usher in one of the darkest periods in for the American military, where torture and war crimes seem to be the order of the day. He then goes around comparing himself Bush to Lincoln and the war in Iraq to the US Civil War? And then the Times writes an article about his squash playing and the great insights it has into his (incompetent) management style.

I guess.