Two retired generals, one a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the other a winner of the Medal of Honor, plus a counterterrorism expert write an
article for
CNN which takes an extremely dim view of the President's foreign policy. Hat tip to
Lucianne.com for the link. My favorite line is this:
The president and his national security advisers have too often proven naïve, with a dangerous habit of viewing the world not as it is, but as they hope it could be.
Precisely so. As a result of this myopia, we face the following:
Be afraid -- be very afraid. This is the warning the world deserves to hear. Because the leader of the free world refuses to look with clear eyes at the chief security challenges of the 21st century: the fruits of radical Islam.
Their solution, some variant of "bomb them back to the stone age." Satisfying to contemplate but difficult to achieve in practice without being accused of genocide.
