The valor of the Rangers of Pointe du Hoc and the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne and the sailors who risked grounding their destroyers on the Normandy beaches to provide covering fire for the hard - pressed men on Omaha's
Dog Red and Fox Green, like the decisiveness of their leaders, stands in sharp and disconcerting contrast to the
fecklessness displayed by too many European and American leaders in recent months, during which foreign - policy - by - hashtag seems to have become the norm.