Geppetto's Final Project

What the American electorate, the pundits, and even most bureaucrats have yet to figure out is that for this White House, internationally speaking, there are no sides. Spying assumes the sovereignty of a nation which would include protecting its borders and keeping its secrets. These are alien concepts to the Obama administration which views geopolitics as borderless shifting ideologies. Clearly, Obama sees himself as more closely aligned with the Fabian style which avoids direct confrontation. As such, his focus is exclusively trained on America itself.

Barack Hussein Obama has little direct interest in geo-political intrigue. To be sure, the CIA and other intelligence agencies still do exist. But these are essentially leaderless. They do what they have always done but, under Obama’s non-leadership, their efforts and skill have been reduced to half-baked at best. Enough room for infighting has opened up which further dilutes their effectiveness. As such, we can expect to see many more instances of embarrassing episodes that don’t appear to make much sense.

Intelligence consists of tools, now poorly used (or not used at all), left to languish in the hastily inherited workshop of a most incompetent dreamer. Occasionally, outside events will conspire to bring them to a kind of half-life and we see them dance to no particular tune on the deceased master’s dusty workbench. Pundits will speculate after having observed their essentially aimless jerks and starts, but only the wooden man in the White House knows for certain that he himself was Geppetto’s final project.

Is it just me, or are Obama’s ears actually getting bigger?
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Stark differences between the Obama and the Bush administrations are beginning to emerge. We seldom heard Bush himself scolding, or pleading through surrogates for policies that would involve the active participation of the American people directly. He just went about his business and did what he felt he had to do, trying as best he could to ignore all the carping. When things went wrong, we would hear about it from others.

By contrast, this president, it seems, is always out there attempting to convince an already highly suspicious electorate to agree to giving up yet another pound of flesh. Clearly, as far as the people are concerned, he has already overstayed his welcome. They are no longer listening. Then he goes ahead and does exactly what he wants.