The week’s hearings were not a seamless success for Democrats. On Tuesday they seemed to be losing the thread. But by Wednesday and Thursday it was restored.Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was not a persuasive witness and did not move the story forward, because in spite of the obvious patriotism reflected in his record he was annoying—smug and full of himself. He appeared in full dress uniform with three rows of ribbons. When Rep. Devin Nunes called him “Mr. Vindman,” he quickly corrected him: “Ranking Member, it’s Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, please.” Oh, snap. As he described his areas of authority at the National Security Council, he seemed to glisten with self-regard. You got the impression he saw himself as fully in charge of U.S. policy toward Ukraine. Asked if it was true that government offered to make him their defense minister he said “yes” with no apparent embarrassment. I don’t know about you but I don’t like it when a foreign government gets a sense of a U.S. military officer and concludes he might fit right in. (A Ukrainian official later said the job offer was a joke.)
I couldn’t read the whole article because it was behind a paywall. But from what you’ve posted it doesn’t sound as if Noonan is saying exactly what the headline said. Maybe a bad attempt at sarcasm?
That said, she’s past her sell-by date, which actually happened after Reagan left office. She attacked the inoffensive and barely conservative GWB all the time too, but I think that was after he had fired her. Since then she has had few flickers of wisdom. And I hate her portentous/pretentious tone.