They are socio-economic classes apart JWebb and old TR...but the temperment is close; the passion is irrepressble and the ability to use tactics to forge towards a strategy is a common skill that both dynamos caused "trouble" with.

Several key questions untouched by Noah: 1) what kind of relationship history has Obama had with Webb. No detail to this critical question is given by Noah the fearful. And Webb may be too honest for the culture of high class pompous dissemblers in Washington: thus Noah fears he is a "rookie" to government.

2) What STRATEGY does Obama have for designing a new foreign policy that is freed from the choak hold of OPEC and Russian and Venezuelan oil?

If these are tough roads, he will need some hardball hitters...Biden, Webb...these are tough and smart forces. Obama wants credible and real "Change", he will need tough Change Agents like these not a bunch of luncheon diplomats who make a soft life walking on red carpets, smiling and shaking hands til they can retire.