Skewering Rice is impractical as well as unseemly. The grains scatter to no good purpose. The sole consequence of her reliance on intelligence community approved talking points, was that for one week, some members of the public thought that Benghazi was part of the spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video that swept through much of the Muslim world. As material became correlated and declassified, the misstatements were corrected.
Susan Rice's Sunday show segments had no policy implications, and resulted in neither loss of property, nor loss of life. Her namesake, Condoleezza Rice, committed a more consequential error, but has been given a non-presidential pardon by Senator McCain.
Condoleezza's pronouncements on Iraq's nuclear capabilities and ambitions, notwithstanding uncertainty in the intelligence community, had far reaching policy implications. Thousands died and hundreds of billions of dollars were spent.
If McCain chooses to lead a rabid pack of Republicans, he should go after bigger game.
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