When the going gets tough, the tough are supposed to get going. But
not in Obama World. Not in Hillary World, either. When the telephone
rings at 3 o'clock in the morning the safe response is to let it ring.
It might be bad news. Time to turn over and try to get back to sleep.
The
Senate Intelligence Committee's long-anticipated and much-feared report
on its investigation into what happened at the American legation in
Benghazi on the night of Sept. 11, 2012, was devastating in its
particulars. The senators cite chapter and verse of the kind of
incompetence and irresponsibility that we once thought was all you could
expect in banana republics and backwaters of the undeveloped world.
But
it was more than that: The report, and the official response to it,
revealed the truly terrifying. What kind of idiot country are we
becoming in this second decade of the 21st century? An official
spokesman for the State Department, which imagines it's the keeper of
the nation's conscience, suggested that when the going gets tough, the
tough run home. Maybe the world is just too dangerous for Americans to
get out and about. "Hard decisions must be made when it comes to whether
the United States should operate in dangerous overseas locations."
Quote, unquote.
There is no understanding of history in the nooks
and crannies of this administration, that the United States has never
retreated from "operating in dangerous overseas locations," and the day
it does the nation is finished. Not so long ago everyone understood
that, and gloried in the determination that such a day would never come.
Stonewall Jackson warned soldiers "never take counsel with your fears."
It was an admonition for one and all.
Franklin D. Roosevelt did
not say, on Dec. 8, 1941, that "the empire of Japan" looked pretty tough
at Pearl Harbor, with all those bombs and stuff, and maybe Congress
should make a "hard decision" to bring everybody home. Really, who would
miss all that sand in Hawaii?
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower did not
say, on June 7, 1945, that he had looked over the carnage at Omaha Beach
of the day before and cabled the White House that "hard decisions must
be made when it comes to whether the United States should operate in
dangerous overseas locations." All that rain, not to say anything about
the mud, blood and gore, and not an umbrella in anybody's backpack. Who
needs Normandy, anyway? Why couldn't everyone just catch a train to
Paris and spend the afternoon with an aperitif on the Champs Elysees?
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