{"id":37003,"date":"2013-08-08T07:55:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37003"},"modified":"2013-08-08T07:55:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:55:43","slug":"crazy-pants-defensive-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37003","title":{"rendered":"“Crazy pants” defensive policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess I’m not the only person who wondered about the overly-broad defensive measures that the Obama Administration took last week when they were quaking in their boots over the “decimated” al Qaeda and their plans for attacking American interests overseas and specifically in the Arab Crescent. McClatchy<\/a> reports the reactions of some experts;<\/p>\n

Take this sampling of reactions from prominent al-Qaida observers:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s crazy-pants \u2014 you can quote me,\u201d said Will McCants, a former State Department adviser on government extremism who this month joins the Brookings Saban Center as the director of its project on U.S. relations with the Islamic world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just showed our hand, so now they\u2019re obviously going to change their position on when and where\u201d to attack, said Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst who was part of the team that hunted Osama bin Laden for years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not completely random, but most people are, like, \u2018What?\u2019 \u201d said Aaron Zelin, who researches militants for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and blogs about them at Jihadology.net<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to argue that it\u2019s not willy-nilly, but it\u2019s hard for me to come down too critical because I simply don\u2019t know their reasoning,\u201d said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a counterterrorism specialist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington research institute.<\/p>\n

In the absence of specifics about what the Obama administration refers to as a \u201cspecific threat,\u201d seasoned analysts were reluctant to comment because there\u2019s so little insight into the government\u2019s decision-making. Instead, a mix of speculation and conspiracy theory fills the void.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think if I was taking protective measures for my embassies, I wouldn’t insure that it leads every single news program for over a week now. That kind of tips your hand. I guess they figure that being this cautious and being this vocal about it makes up for their failures in the Benghazi fiasco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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