The real lesson is one Daniel Patrick Moynihan articulated long ago: If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

That's because if the college accidently invites a conservative speaker, they get demonstrations, riots, boycotts, and other things that make the school look like the despicable group-think nests they actually are. This way, inviting only liberal speakers, the institutions can fly under the radar and kid themselves into thinking they are bastions of free speech and free thought.

"The G.I. Bill of Rights vastly expanded college . . . " The G.I. Bill has a mythology of its own. All of it is centered on the debates about how much the economy would be boosted by sending the returning vets to college. That gamble proved true. But the real impetus for that and other GI benefits was not altruism; it was desperate worries about millions of men roaming the countryside without work or useful outlets for their energies. The post Civil War and post WW1 experiences dictated doing SOMETHING, ANYTHING, to less the chance of social unrest and perhaps even revolution if the men didn't have anything to do.

Of course they didn't believe their own press. The operative phrase there is "their own press." They knew the media would print uncritically anything they said. The only thing that mattered was that they said something and "terrorism" wasn't it.

It would be our fight if we had a president worthy of the office. International stability and the maintenance thereof is our business. It's not solely our business, but everyone is used to our being in charge of such efforts. When we don't lead, nobody follows.

His useless background would suggest that he will do nothing till it's too late, then he will respond with 1/4 measures, and when it all blows up in his face, he'll shrug and assure his like-minded nincompoop Lefty acolytes that it wasn't HIS fault.

Is there a single US ally left that doesn't have the measure of this administration of empty suits?

"We have just seen an episode of gangster government," I wrote at the time. "It is likely to be a continuing series." Matters not as long as we have supine SCOTUS not worth the powder and shot to blow them up. I have never been as disappointed in a SCOTUS ruling as I was that pusillanimous Roberts ruling in Obamacare. If it were a tax, it should have been struck down for failure to follow the legislative requirements for passage of taxes. Gutless wonders, cowed by a popular president. Hitler was popular too when he began dismantling the German government.

Amen, brother!

If only we had that option. He's seizing more and more power to do things TO us. Rule by fiat.