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.