The only reputation getting dragged through the mud is the "release them crowd's"
It's finally being proved how foolish that was and how dangerous these people are.
Though I have to admit, not executing them and instead releasing them so they can go back to their terrorist ways is demoralizing. And foolish.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
