PNOY, in Mapapasano, could say, “As the buck stops here, with me, in Mapapasano, I take full responsibility; I regret my failed effort to check terrorism, and I will answer to history.” He has a little over 500 days to be kicked around.

No one is infallible. Errors occur in combat, like in the Charge of the Light Brigade in Balaclava (1854), Bay of Pigs (1961), Beirut (1982), Black Hawk Down (1993) and Iraq in this millennium (2003), which led to ISIS. Recklessness? Or audacity?