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A Further Perspective
When to Choose Sides
The administration could have clinched a second term by being on the front lines of two fronts.
It rained and rained. The rain continues. I was out in the middle of the night with my pals checking the damage, seeing what we could do. It was not terrible, no power outage or anything. We can hope today and tonight will be milder, at least not worse. Monday’s wind was astonishing. It was probably a mere breeze, however, compared to the force that hit the coast a few hundred miles to the north. Atlantic City is under water, lower Manhattan and the Rockaways and points along the Brooklyn coast line, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, were evacuated. The storm brought snow to western and West Virginia, probably other points as well. The stock exchanges are closed — first time since a great blizzard in 1888 — as are subways and tunnels, schools.
The storm is the worst single natural disaster in American history: keep in mind, though, that certain disasters that stretched over longer periods, like the droughts that hit the Great Plains in the 1930s, were at least as harmful in their consequences as this one, which a far richer society can recover from. Which certainly tells us something about how rich and resourceful we as a people are: coastal areas in Maryland and New Jersey damaged, in many places catastrophically, New York City battered, eight million people without electric power, 50 billion in property damage, another 20 billion in lost business activity, scores killed by the time we count all the casualties. Washington, D.C. and quite a few other places within the storm’s range were lucky. The resilience and courage of people in the worst-hit places, like New York, humbles us who faced mere wind and rain.
A great feat of heroism occurred at Tisch Hospital on Second Ave. in the 20s when the power failed and, in a raging storm, the staff rallied to carry babies and patients to other places, reportedly without losing a single one even though some were on various devices, IV’s, respirators, powered by batteries. The firemen and cops, bravest and finest, performed admirably, saved lives, as usual —as usual, yes, this is the American way.
I hate to make partisan use of it but the facts impose themselves: the strong steady hand of policemen, firemen, hospital staffs, and many others during the great storm of 2012 represents the opposite of the administration’s performance when our people were under enemy fire at Benghazi. Not the least interesting failure here was that Barack Obama blew a chance to win the election in a landslide on 9/11/12 by immediately launching air strikes in Benghazi and sending in reinforcements. Even if they arrived too late to save the ambassador and the security detail, outnumbered as they were like Crockett and Travers and the others at the Alamo, the gesture would have clinched the campaign for him. And it is by no means certain late would have been too late, as well-informed reporters have shown that jets could have scrambled from Italian bases and got there within an hour while troops arrived from elsewhere, which would have been sufficient since the consulate held for several hours.
And even after that appalling failure, the administration could have saved its chances for a second term by being on the front line of the great storm. Instead of hunkering down and mouthing platitudes about the severity of the weather and the need to be careful, the president himself and as many of his men as possible should have been visible, present, up and down the East Coast. They should have started in the neighborhoods of Washington and made their way up the coast to Manhattan, where they should have embedded with units of the NYCPS and NYCFD and NY National Guard all through the night, stayed up there on Tuesday to survey the wreckage — and the admirable civil defense that limited the wreckage — alongside Govs. Christie and Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg, then toured other areas hit by the storm and stayed on this task well into the week.
I am not sure why, but for some reason in the middle of the night when for the fourth or fifth time I found myself bailing water in the neighborhood — it was like getting drops out, but we kept telling ourselves that what the hell, we were keeping the level slightly down in basements and on ground floors and limiting the damage where we could, tying canvas covers on cars and that sort of thing. It was nothing really, did little good materially, but it helped a few people morally, I mean it boosted their morale.
Which is half the battle in these situations. For some reason I found I was listening, in my head, to a 19th century hymn that had not come to mind for I scarcely know how long and that probably had been picked up during one of my recurrent ecumenical phases when I seek whatever we kid ourselves is worth seeking in other people’s beliefs and faiths. It is not an especially good hymn, the words are pompous and without subtlety, and the tune as I recall it represents a kind of cut-rate martial style. But in the way that second rate work sometimes achieves, it does express a profoundly American view of things and I suppose that is why this hymn used to be sung in public schools back in the days when prayer was permitted in public schools. I am not even sure I remember it correctly, but the words that were quietly recurring as I contemplated the overwhelming smallness of humankind compared to the forces of nature were these: Once in the lifetime of each man and nation,/There comes a moment to choose sides.
Choosing sides is not the issue in a case like Sandy storm. Nature as such is not a moral issue. But how you react to it is. It is on an entirely different plane from choosing sides in a war, except in one respect — you have to decide for yourself if you are going to choose to help or choose to give in, choose to try or choose to pretend you do not see. We are against Islamic terror, we are not against nature. We are for our people when they are attacked by Islamic terrorists and we are for our neighbors when their basement floods. Different on every level beginning with the moral one, the situations nevertheless call for identical responses in the sense that choosing sides is a personal commitment. With or without aforethought, premeditation, or what not, you are either the kind of person who chooses to help when you are in a position to do so, or you are the kind of person who says not my problem.
Observe that Gov. Christie, when asked, could do no other than to thank Pres. Obama for responding quickly to the disaster’s consequences in New Jersey. What else was either man to do? Christie was right to be grateful that the president did not hedge or hesitate in promising support for rebuilding destroyed homes and infrastructure with the means appropriated for such purposes under federal legislation. Obama would have been crazy to start nickeling and diming over appropriations that exist for this purpose. These were, as they say in baseball, no-brainers.
The brainer, though it should have been a no-brainer if the president’s political operatives really have the brains imputed to them, was how to lead. Christie was, quite rightly, thanking the president for governing correctly. Leadership is when you rise to a challenge, get out front, rhetorically and symbolically.
The hymn continues, as best I recall, with a line about choosing between good and evil. I am always dubious of such stark admonitions, and I would be appalled if someone claimed taking a pail to your neighbor’s basement at three in the morning has anything to do with good and evil. Again without making any comparisons between entirely different situations, I would say the issue of sending reinforcements to Benghazi was not ipso facto a matter of good and evil. It was a gross mistake, perhaps spilling into dereliction of duty, consistent with a four-year record of not understanding the war in which we are engaged.
If, as the evidence as collected by a number of commentators strongly suggests, the Obama White House knew the Benghazi attack was premeditated and it knew, furthermore, that we had assets to counter it, and yet it did not counter it, and proceeded to lie to the American people about it, I would still say this is high politics played low, not good-and-evil — an egregious example of the no-brains in the Obama administration, but still a mistake more than a moral failure. They thought they could get away with such a stupid explanation and thereby save their erroneous policy of appeasement, a policy which is leading to defeat in the wars Obama promised to “end” and to new wars elsewhere, notably in Mali.
However, there comes a point when such deep strategic cretinism can lead to action or nonaction that can only be described in moral terms. If the Obama high command was as well-informed about Benghazi as a number of commentators claim, all considerations of policy continuity should have gone out the window. They could revert later to appeasement, stalling, retreat, call it what you will. Secretary of State Clinton, for instance, this very week is passing through North Africa in an effort to steady the ship of U.S. foreign policy by assuring regional leaders that we will support the eradication of the terrorist state entrenched in northern Mali at least in part due to the very policies Mrs. Clinton and her boss have been promoting for the past four years.
They could, they can: but on the ground in Benghazi on September 11, U.S. foreign policy was not the issue, American lives were. This indeed was “a moment to choose sides.” In the battle between good and evil, the hymn says: in this moment, the administration was not being asked to choose between good and evil on the global scale. If they do not want to see evil where it is in the global picture, okay, that is why we have elections periodically. This was a case of evil in a small place, involving a desperate fight between good men and evil savages. They, the administration, did not choose or, God help us all, they chose the wrong side.
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Roger Kaplan, a Washington-based writer, covers the Middle East and Africa (and tennis) for The American Spectator.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 10.31.12 @ 7:11AM
Roger,
they just thought they culd "shimmy" it all by via the mainstream criminals...unti after the election.
God bless FOX news for providing the "on the ground muscle." to get the truth on the street.
DTOM| 10.31.12 @ 9:48AM
Roger,
Is this it?
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/n/oncetoev.htm
DTOM
fmm| 10.31.12 @ 10:32AM
If it is, then the authors description of it is dead wrong and belies his true visage.
C Smith | 10.31.12 @ 11:01AM
Robert Spencer in a column in PJ Media explains in part the White House and State Department failure to acknowledged what really happened that night in Benghazi i.e., the manifestation of four years of Islam-sensitive foreign policy and the lifeless sodomized body of Chris Stevens:
The Obama administration is approaching full meltdown over the steady stream of revelations concerning its inaction and lies over the massacre of Ambassador Chris Stevens and other U.S. personnel in Libya....
Speaking about the Libyan revolution in March 2011, Obama warmly praised the dawning in Libya of “the rights of peaceful assembly, free speech, and the ability of the Libyan people to determine their own destiny.” After providing military aid to the anti-Gaddafi rebels despite evidence of their al-Qaeda links, the administration–whether the call really came from the White House or the State Department or both–had every reason to ignore the request from Benghazi for more security, and to pretend that the whole thing was just a spontaneous uprising over a video, not the carefully planned September 11 jihad attack that it proved to be.
To have acknowledged what was really happening would have been to admit that the Allahu-akbaring mob besieging the Benghazi consulate was nothing remotely close to a responsible citizenry enjoying their rights of peaceful assembly, free speech, and self-determination....
http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-re.....epage=true
Appleby| 10.31.12 @ 7:16AM
You could have looked it up.
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
Then to side with truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and ’tis prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses while the coward stands aside,
Till the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, Thy bleeding feet we track,
Toiling up new Calv’ries ever with the cross that turns not back;
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth,
They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong;
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.
JoeS| 10.31.12 @ 8:46AM
James Russel Lowell
Written as a protest to the Mexican war and published in the Boston Courier, December 11, 1845.
A prominent poet and author, Lowell graduated from Harvard College in 1838, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He became Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Harvard in 1855, succeeding Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He edited the Atlantic Monthly (1857-1862) and the North American Review (1863-1872), and served as American minister to Spain (1877-1880) and ambassador to England (1880-1885).
TLP| 10.31.12 @ 10:04AM
A Girl from High School once said to me: "Life is such a short time, to be good."
She was so right, and so Gorgeous. Kathy McDoanld, was her name.
I don't Lie, I don't Cheat, and I Don't Steal. It's not that hard to do. When I'm not stuck indoors with all you Shutins? I'm out and about, doing good works.
You do the Right Things, and everything else will fall in to place.
Why would we Order our People to Stand Down, when we had other people under attack? WTF are these Scumbags talking about - Permission to Fly into Libyan Airspace? We don't have Pakistani Permission. Yet, this guy sends Drones in there all the time. Didn't he lose one in Iran? So WTF?
Why have Two Successive Democrat Presidents DENIED Requests made by U.S. Military Personell ON THE GROUND, and UNDER ATTACK?
Somalia - Where THE RAPIST - Bill Clinton, denied those Army Rangers the Armour they requested, leaving them Hung Out to Dry.
And now in Benghazi - Where this Marxist Muslim Narccissistic piece of Whore Afterbirth, let our People be Slaughtered, while he went to his Warm Bed, for a good night's sleep, before Jetting Off to Las Vegas, and Jay Z's House, and all that $1,800 a Bottle Champagne.
Just don't you dare question their Patriotism.
Stephie| 10.31.12 @ 8:14AM
Has anyone read The Harbinger?
TLP| 10.31.12 @ 9:41AM
Save it for Friday.
All of a sudden, I want a Hamburger.
That's wierd.
DTOM| 10.31.12 @ 9:51AM
Ever watch the late '50's - mid 60's show about the trial lawyer "Perry Mason?"
Perry's unrelenting foe is a prosecutor named "Hamilton Burger." I don't think they ever once referred to him as "Ham," did they?
I've been waiting a long time to ask that question...
TLP| 10.31.12 @ 10:06AM
All this knowledge, and yet, you refuse to join us on our Friday Sabaticals.
Your loss.
Bob Grant| 10.31.12 @ 10:41AM
TLP,
Nevermind these holdouts. They're haters. They're bitter clingers.
Your game is so popular now, TGIF is considering changing it's name to TFIAD! - Thank God It's Analogy Day!
Bob Grant| 10.31.12 @ 11:04AM
TGIAD...sorry.
Damn, I screwed that one up!
Pecos Pete| 10.31.12 @ 12:03PM
Bob: tide yek can be corrected with weiverp nottub. Is it TGIAD yet? Doesn't matter, I'm gettin' snockered today with the beer (Allagash Victor Francenstein ) that Tim sent me.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.31.12 @ 12:28PM
The Friedrich Franckenstien pilsner is newer, fresher and lighter, but somewhat more bitter (or is that Froedrich?).
Bob Grant| 10.31.12 @ 12:58PM
"Allagash Victor Francenstein"
Sounds like a brew Dieter from Sprockets briefly enjoyed, that is, until it became tiresome to him.
merlin| 10.31.12 @ 9:51AM
Yes. And any of you who have not, please do.
gene| 10.31.12 @ 10:16AM
Yes, it was interesting, but he was stretching to make his points. He stretched Biblical verses all over to try and get his point validated. I do not disagree that according to the Old and the New Testaments, that this country has to answer to G*d for our pagan ways. Just killing 50 million babies since the 1970's is a big reason for some serious Godly Wrath against this country and others. I just think that the way this author presented his case did not exactly jibe with scritpture.
SCPOret| 10.31.12 @ 9:18AM
"Crockett and Travers and the others at the Alamo" Obviously you're not from Texas - That was Travis not travers
jdondet| 10.31.12 @ 12:13PM
I was wondering if I was the only one who caught that.
Who is Travers? Not a type o.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.31.12 @ 12:30PM
I was thinking of a musiciian named Pat Travers, whom if I recall correctly recorded "Boom, Boom; Out Go the Lights".
Bob Grant| 10.31.12 @ 12:43PM
No,
You were thinking of that country crooner Randy Travers.
Drunken Sailor| 10.31.12 @ 5:44PM
Any kin to that naked drunk arrested in Texas by the name of Randy Travis?
Bob Grant| 10.31.12 @ 7:03PM
I believe he changed his name to Randy Traverse 'cause of his little problem with keeping between those lines while driving late at night.
soljerblue| 11.1.12 @ 12:56AM
And he forgot to mention Bowie. Unforgiveable!
Minuteman78| 10.31.12 @ 9:37AM
This says it all about this administration: "Instead of hunkering down and mouthing platitudes about the severity of the weather and the need to be careful, the president himself and as many of his men as possible should have been visible, present, up and down the East Coast. "
It's because they're a bunch of political whores and are basically cowards who care about nothing but votes. Since the Northeast is pretty much a lock for Democrats, in their minds, "why bother"?
gene| 10.31.12 @ 10:21AM
Okay you just hold it RIGHT THERE, Mr. Minuteman78. There are hard working whores all over the world that are unappreciated, underpaid, and demeaned by just about everyone. I am not trying to condone Prostitution. However, the very least you can do is not OFFEND and INSULT these poor unfortunate people by comparing them to the Political Scum in Washington. On behalf of all the Whores on this planet, I think you owe someone an apology.
Stick| 10.31.12 @ 1:24PM
Prostitutes earn a living. Politicians?
bison cookie| 10.31.12 @ 10:09AM
AMERICANS KNOW NOW. THE AMBASSADOR DIED ASKING FOR HELP ... WATCH HERE: http://bwcentral.org/2012/10/t.....-for-help/
potkas7| 10.31.12 @ 10:12AM
The greatest disaster in American history? Greater than the San Francisco Earthquake or the Chicago Fire?
Reading this article I'm reminded of that famous New Yorker Magazine cover with a large Manhattan in the foreground, a wide Hudson river, and then a little sliver of land representing the rest of the country terminating in the moderate ditch of the Pacific with Asia visible on the other side.
Part of the Eastern Seaboard was hit by a wicked-bad storm. It just happens to be the part where the media elite all live. My heart goes out to those suffering, but I know that the nation has the resources and the will to provide both the needed aid and the means for a speedy recovery. However, for most all of the rest of the country this is only a news story to be read or seen on TV before heading off to work.
fmm| 10.31.12 @ 10:40AM
Agree. And people like the author who think it is the president's duty to get personally involved with such as this are a big part of the problems we face today. These are local problems with financial aid from the federal government recognized as a means to recover more quickly. Big, all invasive federal government is NOT the answer, but the problem.
Bob Grant| 10.31.12 @ 10:26AM
I wonder what obama is currently thinking?
After all, he's out of his element. He's forced to stay at the White House and LEAD!
He cannot play golf!
He cannot be wif his peeps on the campaign trail and rail against the 1 percenters or Bitterclingers!
He cannot call in to morning radio shows and talk about his Ipod selections wif Pimp Wif a Limp!
He cannot sit wif the gals on The View and and discuss the tragedy of there only being one of him to spread out among the Ladies!
He cannot yuk it up wif Letterman and Stewart!
He cannot sip $1000-a-glass champimple wif Beyonce and her man Fresh Prince, Tone Loc, Flavor Flav, or whatever-the-hell his name is!
He cannot tour some restaurant or state fair shoving a burger in his face!
No, he must be presidential! He must lead! He must be compassionate!
...for an extended period of time!!!
What are the odds he'll revert back to old patterns and fail miserably, display bad judgement, or say something incredibly stupid the media wont cover?
Who Knows?| 10.31.12 @ 10:59AM
The very Universe ALWAYS conspires to make us happy.
“Bad” weather, a “bad” president?
The “worst”, EVER!!!
“To survive, we must change, and grow, and evolve.
To change, and grow, and evolve, we must transcend ourselves.
To transcend ourselves, we must become a love-sacrifice into the Radiant Life-Principle.” Da Free John
”There is simply no light abroad in the world today. There is nothing but corruption, nothing but the failure to accept the Way of God. There is absolutely no sign of the Way of Truth, except in rare instances of individuals and small groups of people. The Truth is essentially hidden and secondary. There are no signs of an imminent Golden Age in the disposition of condition of humanity at large. Rather, the signs are of the necessity for a great purification, a great reestablishment of order, a righteous readjustment of the whole world.” Da Free John
Yes---we’re all very familiar with economic bubbles.
Well, there is a worldwide “bubble”, manifesting as the practically unanimous belief in scientific materialism and religious provincialism by people, to the exclusion of true Understanding.
Such an over-bought market will ADJUST = purify.
JFGalt| 10.31.12 @ 1:38PM
"The storm is the worst single natural disaster in American history" - HUH!?! Come on now. This was bad but there have been much worse storms and less we forget that horrendous earthquake a few years ago in SF where highways were collapsing while loaded with people in cars. This may be bad on their infrastructure but the scene of 50 homes burned down is nothing after you've gone through the huge Country Walk Subdivision after Hurricane Andrew. This was bad but there have been worse storms. And I'm sorry to throw this in there but why were HAARP monitoring stations detecting off the chart readings directed over the impact zone in the days before the storm hit. This storm was weirdly steering making 90 degree turns particularly given its speed. I don't know what to believe anymore or what forces are at play. This country has gotten kind of strange in the last few years.
Drunken Sailor| 10.31.12 @ 5:46PM
Kind of strange?
JFGalt, the master of understating.
Nina in MA| 10.31.12 @ 5:12PM
I think you underestimate his "understanding of the war in which we are engaged". I think he knows exactly what he's doing, even tho he may be relying on his puppet master Valerie...they refuse to call it a "war on terror"...there is no mention of terrorists or terrorism...our military families are denied benefits because he refuses to call attacks on our bases "acts of terror"...to blame a video and not "terrorists" for Benghazi attacks again is to try to manipulate the population that we don't have to worry anymore...Obama killed Osama...end of story. While our men died, we have secret meetings and back room dealings with Iran...welcome mat to known muslim terror suspects....
But, I guess for those who just won't see the truth, Obama making the announcement that Sandy is a big bad storm was enough to seal the deal...
Ralph Novy| 11.1.12 @ 3:03AM
Let the Benghazi thing a rest, Kaplan.
Take a cue from Condoleeza Rice and wait for the facts to be ascertained.
To prematurely jump on the anti-Obama speculative/accusatory bandwagon at this point just shreds your credibility as a commentator.
You should know better.
spike59| 11.1.12 @ 5:47AM
and you actually believe we'll ever hear 'the facts' from the ObaMao administration?????? hell, you're ignoring what we ALREADY know!
'the Benghazi thing' cost the lives of our Ambassador and 3 other Americans, including those who disobeyed orders and sacrificed their lives trying to save others...but, by all means, let's just close our eyes and hope it goes away; it simply wouldn't be 'fayurrrrrrr' to cast a less than glowing light on the Obamessiah
Occam's Tool| 11.1.12 @ 9:02PM
Ralph:
I'm sorry, but he is POTUS. "The Buck Stops Here."
Until PROVEN OTHERWISE, he is to blame, as State and Defense screwed up, and people died, and he is responsible for State and Defense.
Goes with the job. Respondeat superior. Flip side of partying with Johnny Depp.
Occam's Tool| 11.1.12 @ 9:04PM
That is the type of shit I have to deal with every day as an MD. As Clinical Director of my facility. Respondeat Superior.
His job is supposed to be slightly higher on the pay grade. That's why I eat McDonald's most days (no one will be funding my kids' college, unlike Barack), and he eats Kobe Steak.
Bill8472| 11.1.12 @ 10:57AM
There are any number of natural disasters that have been equal to or greater than Hurricane Sandy.
1. The Dust Bowl;
2. The New Madrid Earthquake
3. The San Francisco Earthquake and subsequent fire of 1906
4. The Yankee Clipper storm of 1938
5. The eruption of Mt. St. Helens of 1980
There are probably some others, but those are the ones I can come up with off the top of my head. I don't characterize the Chicago Fire as a natural disaster.
Bill8472| 11.1.12 @ 11:03AM
I forgot the big snowstorm of 1888 in New York City.
Also, the Year Without Summer in 1816 due to the eruption of Mt. Tambora halfway around the world.
Occam's Tool| 11.1.12 @ 9:05PM
Try the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, and then Katrina.
Ralph Novy| 11.1.12 @ 4:44PM
Read http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....9227.html.
Then shut up.
Occam's Tool| 11.1.12 @ 9:07PM
Bush took a bit more grief from the MSM than Obama, if I recall.
Occam's Tool| 11.1.12 @ 9:06PM
Tryingto recall when Bush had an Ambassador sodomized. Nope, can't recall.