President Clinton receiving blowjobs in the White House with a 21 year old intern to whom he was not married, lying about it to the American people on camera (complete with finger pointing), being found guilty of lying under oath, i.e., perjury, and being impeached, yet remaining in office.
That the press did not see all this as an embarrassment to our nation, but does see the actions of a few demented soldiers half-way around the world as such, is no surprise. What happened to their line, "It's only sex, and every one does it, and can't we just move on?"
Bingo. Last night I heard Ted Kennedy bloviating about how this incident "damaged our moral credibility worse than any other crisis in this nation's history." Apparently, Sen. Kennedy has forgotten the crisis that arose from Mr. CLinton's philandering. You know, the one in which the chief executive of the United States was impeached for only the second time in two centuries?