The Scandal of Our Age

from Works and Days by Victor Davis Hanson:

The Scandal of Our Age:

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Here is the crux of the scandal: Obama is formulating a new policy of avoiding overt unpopular engagements, while waging an unprecedented covert war across the world. He’s afraid that the American people do not fully appreciate these once secret efforts and might in 2012 look only at his mishaps in Afghanistan or his public confusion over Islamic terror. Ergo, feed information to a Sanger or Ignatius so that they can skillfully apprise us, albeit with a bit of dramatic “shock” and “surprise,” just how tough, brutal and deadly Barack Obama really is.

Yet these disclosures will endanger our national security, especially in the case of a soon to be nuclear Iran. They will probably get people killed or tortured, and they will weaken America’s ability for years to work covertly with allies. Our state to state relations will be altered, and perhaps even [...]