The real problem with this administration is that they live in a fantasy world viewed through the blurred filter of political correctness. The fiasco at the Secret Service has exposed this in graphic detail. The following article in the Washington Post reveals the quality of the leadership in this administration:
Assuming the following quote is accurate, it sure looks like political correctness is the root cause of our problems:
“We need to be more like Disney World. We need to be more friendly, inviting.”
Political correctness sees a world wrapped in fantasy. Obviously not every senior official in the Obama administration was a costumed character at Disneyland, but they all live in a fantasy world. They are remarkably incapable of seeing the real world. For example, Obama cannot bring himself to believe that there is a causal relationship between Islam and Islamic terrorists. Instead Obama really believes that Islam is a religion of peace and that it a wild coincidence that so many people believe that Islam requires them to carry out jihad.
This is the same reasoning used to justify taking guns away from law abiding citizens to reduce gun violence. It is the same reasoning that believes we need more schools and fewer prisons. They do not understand the bitter reality of the world. If good guys do not restrain bad guys, bad guys NEVER restrain themselves. That is why in most civilized societies the first thing you build in a prison, the second thing you build is a church and then you can start thinking about building schools.
This is why a man with a knife was allowed to run across the White House lawn, overpower a female guard and then run loose until a male, off-duty, secret service agent tackled him. The focus was not on protecting the White House and protecting the President. The focus was on looking good in the process. We are very fortunate that this gross negligence wasn’t discovered doing the follow-up to an assassination. We are also fortunate that no one killed Benjamin Netanyahu because the Secret Service was worried about traffic flow.
We are relying on people incapable of even recognizing reality to protect us against imminent threats to national security. How can we expect them to make good decisions? Josh Ernest recently said that the administration is going to protect the country from EBOLA by teaching our border patrol to look for symptoms. He missed the part where people are flooding into our borders without exactly checking in with the border patrol.
The question is which is worse; the fact that people might be stupid enough to buy this, or the distinct possibility that the people responsible for national security are that stupid? After reading this article, the answer seems pretty obvious.
TDM