"Barack
Obama, the president with the least understanding of military affairs
of any on record, is fighting this as a limited war, a war of
“containment” with no overall strategy of the moment, much less any kind
of grand strategy for the long run. Obama, along with his various
Middle East “experts” of the Susan Rice and Samantha Power variety,
persists in stumbling from crisis to crisis, never accomplishing much,
never looking forward to the next move, forever playing catchup ball.
The end result has been political chaos, humanitarian disaster, and a
revival of Jihadi fortunes throughout the Islamic crescent.
We
have a people whose mental horizons are set by sports, entertainment
trivia, and reality TV. People who want no more than to retreat to their
mancaves, malls, and game consoles and not be bothered. They are easily
played and manipulated by anybody who is willing to promise exactly
that.
This
mindset will need to be destroyed before a serious campaign against the
Jihadis can be resumed. Eventually the terrorists will take care of
that themselves through their own atrocious actions. But it won’t happen
tomorrow, and until it does, there’s no point in discussing an
abstraction like “strategy.” Without will, strategy is pantomime.
We
need a grand vision for the United States. Not only as the world’s
leading economy and pioneer in participatory democracy, but as something
more: a nation with a great destiny as defender of the West and
protector of the civilized virtues against a savage and implacable
enemy."
[American Thinker]
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