Plagiarism on the NYT op ed page?

I'm sure this is just a whopping coincidence (major hat tip to Remember the Midwest blog for catching this). Both articles are about Obama supposedly not mentioning military service during a speech about national service. They both mention a recent squabble about veteran's benefits, Kristol's piece uses the title of the other piece as a regular phrase, not credited, and even the titles of the articles are similar.

RealClearPolitics, May 27, 2008, in an article ironically titled "Obama's sin of omission":

So I guess it's just me wondering -- how on earth do you give a speech on that topic and not mention our country's most widespread and important form of public service and sacrifice, military service?

Maybe Obama didn't want to go there because of the unfortunate political contrast between himself and John McCain when it comes to military service and knowledge, an unflattering comparison that left Obama on the short end of a recent political exchange over veterans' benefits.

Now here is NYT op ed columnist Bill Kristol, dated today June 2, in a piece entitled "What Obama left out":

More striking is Obama’s sin of omission. In the rest of the speech, he goes on to detail — at some length — the “so many ways to serve” that are available “at this defining moment in our history.” There’s the Peace Corps, there’s renewable energy, there’s education, there’s poverty — there are all kinds of causes you can take up “should you take the path of service.”

But there’s one obvious path of service Obama doesn’t recommend — or even mention: military service. He does mention war twice: “At a time of war, we need you to work for peace.” And, we face “big challenges like war and recession.” But there’s nothing about serving your country in uniform.

It can’t be that the possibility of military service as an admirable form of public service didn’t occur to Obama. Only the day before, Obama had been squabbling with John McCain about veterans’ benefits.

Talk about your sins of omission. Maybe the article should been titled "What Bill Kristol left out."