Ill-equipped to conduct serious journalism at a time of national urgency, the media will obsess about Donald Trump’s vulgar reference last night to his anatomy, ignoring his most important and devastating utterance in a campaign in which he has left little doubt about his contempt for democracy and the moral necessity to defeat him either before or after he gets the GOP presidential nomination.

Mrs. Clinton was won over. Opposition leaders "said all the right things about supporting democracy and inclusivity and building Libyan institutions, providing some hope that we might be able to pull this off," said Philip H. Gordon...