Mr. French is at least on topic with respect to the real issues in the PSU story, which is more than I can say for a couple of other NRO writers. I congratulate him for refraining from putting a political spin on the story, or trying to insert a discussion of the media. I do find it a bit incongruous that he connects, even in a diametric fashion, the PSU events and bravery by our military.

Personally I don't look at the lack of appropriate action by PSU personnel as being a lack of courage, but rather a moral compass being absent. Of the sorry lot, the only one that could possibly be questioned in terms of courage is McQeaury, when he witnessed a child being raped by Sandusky, although it seems that it shouldn't take that much courage for a younger man, just a couple of years removed from facing Big 10 linemen on a weekly basis in the fall, to have been able to muster what it took to protect a child from an older man.

As for the administrators, and Paterno, it is simply a matter of lacking the morals to understand that the safety and well being of children as far more important than a football program.

Material available to date also suggests that campus police, as well as a local DA did not have the moral conviction to understand that investigating a child predator trumps an athletic program.

I have been seeing a lot of this kind of comment. I don't really get it. I think it is probably true that a former quarterback could probably have wrestled Sandusky off of the boy. But it's kind of beside the point. You wouldn't need to be a former quarterback to say "What the F are you doing to that kid, Jerry?". How much courage would that take?

The problem runs far deeper than Penn St. The automatic instinct of those in Leadership, from the POTUS on down to a co. supervisor is to punt anything that might negatively impact himself. All these self-help books 'how to make a lot of money while screwing over everyone else' etc. advocate such manuevers. Leadership itself goes unrewarded and is disdained; all is politics. Take credit for the morning sunrise, but have no clue as to what is happening inside your own office. Can't quite get around to reading all those memos, huh, Mr. Holder?

I feel sorry for you that everything has to be political in your eyes.

Er, no.

Probably because that area of Pennsylvania is hardcore republican.

Perhaps - but they certainly lived the secular radical "me first and foremost" lifestyle of the radical liberal Democratic lifestyle. My guess is they were pretend Repubs, but practicing Dems.

Yes, because everyone knows how homosexuals tend toward the Republican party. We might as well just hold the GOP caucuses at the Gay Pride parade in San Francisco.

Democrats and Republicans are two heads of the same freak organism, a chimera nurtured and fed by Monsanto, Con Agra, Pfizer, ...

Paterno. His covering it up.
Why?

The one in 1998.
When the cops were all over HIS football program asking about Sandsusky. Without Paterno knowing they were, he said.
Followed by the golden handshake for Jerry Sandusky with the office, the keys to the joint, the entourage of little boys.

Then the one in 2002
Where he doesnt say what any Big Ego would. "This is my program, this was my friend, so knock off the vague stuff, McQuerry. Tell me, what specifically did Sandusky do?

Then "reporting it" to some flunkies. And he does nothing further, even when there's no follow- up, no cops, no grand jury subpoenas. And he keeps old friend Jerry on his fund raising circuit, still hanging around campus, still with his trail of boys in the showers, Paterno's showers.

And his rewarding McQuery's with the coveted coaching job. For his loyalty

Why? What hold did Sandusky have on Paterno?
Other Paterno coverups, going back years?
Or their friendship, is Paterno a bit on the other side himself?