• Comment ()  Obama Doesn't Have a National Security Strategy
January 29, 2013 RSS Feed Print  Sometimes it really seems like
President Barack Obama's national security team isn't paying
much attention to what is going on around the world. You can
argue—as they have—that they were caught off guard by the attack
on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi but, as it came on Sept. 11,
2012, you could argue just as convincingly that they should have
be prepared.  The evidence is mounting, however, that they don't
really have, besides bringing home the troops from Iraq and
Afghanistan, much of a strategy for anything. They don't know
what the global threats are, they don't understand them and, as
a consequence, they don't have a plan for dealing with them.
[See a collection of political cartoons on Afghanistan.]  And,
if that were not bad enough, in their ignorance they may
actually be enabling bad people to do bad things. Look at North
Africa, where more than one country is going through a period of
extended chaos that