Jed Babbin is an Op-Ed contributor to The Washington Examiner. He was appointed deputy undersecretary of defense by President George H.W. Bush. He is a contributing editor for The American Spectator and the author of such best-selling books as "Inside the Asylum" and "In the Words of Our Enemies."
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It doesn't matter where he was, we are told, because he was...
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