Issues Under Fire: What to Do When Trust is Not an Option

Issues Under Fire: What to Do When Trust is Not an Option 

The world has found itself in a quandary since President Obama revealed his National Intelligence Director got the ISIS/ISIL threat all wrong. According to the President, James Clapper apparently misread all signs of ISIS/ISIL's motives, movements and mission.  

After years in the making inside Iraq and eventually spreading to Syria, U.S. intelligence professionals (we are being led to believe) never saw the true magnitude of the ISIS/ISIL threat coming. With billions spent annually spying on the entire planet, the President says the U.S.' global surveillance apparatus failed to accurately estimate ISIS/ISIL's strengths and failed miserable in overestimating Iraq's military's will and capability to fight.  

If one finds President Obama's explanation for his administration's slow, sloppy and unsustainable response to ISIS/ISIL's rapid rise to global infamy hard to swallow, then one has to consider the possibility that President "Slick & Sly" Obama might be lying through his teeth.  From bombs going off in Baghdad daily to Syria's Bashar al-Assad's dire warnings of ISIS/ISIL's vicious attacks should have been clues recognized and not marginalized. 

If the latter is closer to the truth, how in the hell can the world move forward with any confidence U.S. leadership will pave a path to success against ISIS/ISIL? If the former is closer to the truth, how the hell can the world move forward with any confidence U.S. intelligence is competent enough to provide trustworthy guidance successfully confront ISIS/ISIL? If neither the President nor U.S. intelligence can be trusted, what does a conflicted world do when trust is not an option? 

Bottom line: It is imperative the American public and the international community fully understand how the administration is laying the ground work for another long term military engagement. Going to war with bad intelligence or going to war on the word of an untrustworthy leader is hardly a solid foundation for success. Going to war with both is a solid foundation for disaster. Podcast Below!