The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

Sami heard dogs barking.

Sami heard some dogs barking.

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge they are all mute dogs, they can't bark dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

His watchmen are blind they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

But, in judging leaders, we need to pay attention to acts of both omission and commission, to what happened and to what was avoided, to the dogs that barked and to those that did not.