Letists will never trust the military or any intelligence agency but will instead rely upon their own “intelligence.” Hence the problem with foreign affairs that leftists always have. Well, that is only part of the problem. Their naive views and many other factors are also relevant to their incompetence.
They have themselves partly to blame. I recall a national intelligence estimate which was written and leaked about two years ago, which concluded that Iran had given up their nuclear weapons ambitions. Despite the absurdity of the conclusion, it cut the legs out of any Bush administration efforts to do anything more than talk to Iran, which is what is what the writers and leakers intended to accomplish politically. Now that Iran is about a year away from a bomb and they have a President who doesn't care, that politically motivated National Intelligence Estimate doesn't seem like such a good idea in retrospect.