Prairie2 News: Rotten Apples & Sour Grapes

Darrell Issa who is Chairman of the Republican Witch Hunt Committee in the House is running hearings on the lack of security at the US Embassy in Libya. Some Republican loyalists assigned to Libya dutifully complained that the State Department wasn’t meeting their security requests. What they actually wanted was their own aircraft, the State Dept told them to fly commercial. In fact they hadn’t requested anything for the Consulate in Benghazi. That city was considered friendly territory, and in fact the locals rallied to the aid of the Americans. In the aftermath the killing of the US diplomats, the civilian population rose up, overran militant’s compounds across the city and burned them down. We could use that sort of patriotism here.

via Prairie2 News.

Reminder

One of my favorite poems . . .

First Lesson

Lie back daughter, let your head
be tipped back in the cup of my hand.
Gently, and I will hold you. Spread
your arms wide, lie out on the stream
and look high at the gulls. A dead-
man’s float is face down. You will dive
and swim soon enough where this tidewater
ebbs to the sea. Daughter, believe
me, when you tire on the long thrash
to your island, lie up, and survive.
As you float now, where I held you
and let go, remember when fear
cramps your heart what I told you:
lie gently and wide to the light-year
stars, lie back, and the sea will hold you.

~ Philip Booth