Observation from VDH

Victor Davis Hanson had this observation in response to a reader's question:

This is an election year in which our sense of balance is all out of kilter: a former National Security Advisor walks out with top secret documents stuck in his pants that may have been later "lost" and we shrug; mention "Jewish" sympathies and we have a full-blown spy-scandal. I have met a number of officers and civilians in the Pentagon and none of them were patsies for Israel; they were among the finest people I've encountered. I'll leave you with a disturbing thought: at a time of war, going to Paris and freelancing with Viet Cong representatives in 1970-71 should have been a felony; being a midlevel analyst and perhaps talking too much about what we should do in Iran is not even a misdemeanor. So let us wait for the facts to come out. We are only now getting the full story of the so-called Joe Wilson escapade, and it looks worse for him each week.