What is the speaker's opinion on the current state of America's security and the ability of the people in charge to protect the country?
America, like Santiago's great fish, is now inert and being circled by sharks: Russia, China, North Korea.  This time, unlike any time since the Civil War, it's existential.  And who do we have protecting our way of life?  I'd say the Keystone Kops, but they actually always  got their man.  This crew is better described by Macbeth:  ". . . a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing."