Chris Stevens is dead, Al Qaeda is alive.
[Update a few minutes later]
Surprise! The Nobel Peace Prize winner has not earned his award.
[Update a while later]
Dispatches from the war that nobody wants:
As everybody knows, there is no such thing as a global war on terror anymore. Instead we live in a harmonious world of interfaith comity with only the occasional criminal act that is quickly and competently handled by law enforcement officials. As a result we can cut our defense budgets and get on with the real business of life, which is to say watching TV, going to the mall and voting to re-elect the strategic geniuses whose wise decisions and firm but thoughtful leadership gave us this tranquil world order.
As we celebrate this new age of peace, understanding and joy, here are a few stories that might matter if we didn’t have such a wise and level-headed government in Washington that was bent on soothing and quieting what might otherwise be an aroused and worried public opinion.
Unfortunately, it’s not true that nobody wants it. The enemy does. They know that you can’t win if you don’t fight.
I suspect that the Romney campaign is busy slicing and dicing chunks of Lara Logan’s interview with General Allen on 60 Minutes last night. It’s possibly the most damning description of the utter fecklessness of Obama’s Southwest Asia foreign policy that I’ve ever heard–all the more remarkable coming from CBS. If you didn’t see it, you should.
Allen is clearly a great diplomat. The word “clusterf**k” wasn’t used even once.