Tone Is Not a Virtue | RealClearPolicy

There’s a certain class of commentator—overrepresented on cable panels and cocktail parties—that insists the central question of our moment is tone.  -  Heather R. Higgins

• Not outcomes. 
• Not deterrence. 
• Not whether fewer people die. 

Tone.
Which is how we end up in the peculiar position of litigating the president’s phrasing while largely ignoring the far more relevant question: does it work?...