"---- choice"

[Charles Doyle]

Last night on MSNBC Chris Matthews referred to President Obama's approach to the Afghanistan situation as a "Hobbesian choice."  A slip of the tongue? A malapropism? Or was he suggesting that life in that beleaguered realm will always be nasty, brutish, and short? Or did he really mean not a "Hobson's choice" but rather (as an old idiom has it) a "choice of evils"?

--Charlie
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