Pity

For John, BLUF:  Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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I feel sorry for Ms Susan Rice, the President's National Security Advisor.  First she is sent out to hit all the Sunday Morning Talk Shows to tell us that the Benghazi attack was caused by a 14 minute video out of California.♠  Turns out that even CNN News Personality Candy Crowley knew that it was a terrorist attack and knew that the President knew.  Bad luck.

But, for round two, Ms Rice went out on the circuit once again, this time proclaiming that Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, recently a prisoner of the Taliban, in Afghanistan, had served with honor and distinction.  Perhaps he did serve with honor and distinction, but the reports are not flowing that way.  Not just his fellow soldiers are down on him, but folks like Senator Claire McCaskill are backing off on this.

Frankly, hero or boob, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is OUR guy.  Mal makes the point in this very short Firefly video clip.♥  Our goal, sort of our military ethos, is to leave no one behind.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  And not that anyone cares, but Dr Rice added to the chorus that was talking about, defacto, the Federal Government shredding our First Amendment Rights because a group overseas had been offended by the short Innocence of Muslims.
♥  Firefly is probably a cult sort of thing.  No, not that sort of cult.