The myriad of agencies of America's Intelligence Community (IC), do not make command decisions. They merely collect, analyze and disseminate reported intelligence and the more critical Indications & Warnings (I&W's), to the decision-makers of our National Command Authority (NCA) of which President Obama presides over as the supreme decision-maker in America.
It is an authority he never lets Americans forget every time he mentions how he will get something done with his mighty pen and phone, in spite of our elected representation in Congress. In this past Sunday's interview on the CBS broadcast of "60 Minutes," he told the entire nation he was let down by the IC's "underestimating of the ISIL threat," when in fact, they had been diligently reporting to the White House and State Department on the rapid evolution of that very threat for over a year!
Retired Lt.Gen. James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), stepped up to make it clear that what his subordinate agencies did get wrong was their overestimation of the Iraqi military's ability to fight. This was due to the corrupt Nouri al-Maliki having replaced the original U.S.-trained commanders with politically loyal Shiite satraps in uniform, who cut and ran when it was 'come to Allah time', leaving their troops to be massacred by those brave 'holy warriors' of the Islamic State who truly excel at slaughtering their enemies, providing they are securely bound hand and foot.
So, while our president continues his career-long game of "pin-the-tail-of-blame-on-somebody-else," maybe it's time for the all the American voters who elected this Democrat Party 'donkey', by either casting ballots or staying home on election day, to start playing "pin-the-tail-on-our-own-behinds," for TWICE electing a candidate who is so blinded by his own reflection in the mirror of hubris, he can't see that his long-dreamed-of legacy is going to have no legs at all.
K.J. Dolney
Columbia, So. Carolina
