Let us turn from the post-Thanksgiving scenes of inflamed mobs clubbing each other to the ground for a discounted television set to the comparatively placid boulevards of the Middle East.
We count on our leaders to handle Black Every Day over there where hate-filled jihadists actively plot to kill us 24/7 in ever more gruesome ways and with bigger body counts, but our leaders seem to have forgotten we are at war despite more than a decade of fighting the jihadis.
Which makes sense, since our president doesn't seem to really believe we are at war with anything but Republicans with dog-whistle hate terminology.
To paraphrase The New York Times, Big Screw Ups Require Big Government.