A high U.S. official tells the world that the latest Paris mass murders were really bad compared to the previous ones. Of course, the Charlie Hebdo murders were wrong — not everyone has the nuanced moral sensibility of a John Kerry — but you can understand how the terrorists felt. Someone had published a cartoon that seriously annoyed them, so what could you expect them to do, for God’s sake? Obviously, murder everyone concerned. That doesn’t make it right, but boys will be boys. Maybe we should all just lighten up a little.
Republicans must retain their sense of proportion in these loony tune times. Ryan and McConnell, McCain and Romney, and all serious GOP presidential candidates have a duty to demand Kerry’s resignation. They might even get it, because even Democrats cringe when this man opens his mouth. Whereupon the Obama roulette wheel is unlikely to nominate anyone worse suited to be secretary of state (such as who?); and we might even get lucky. In any case, we have a duty to try.
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