[Stosh]

“We are in a narrative battle”.

Translation for those of you in Rio Linda: “The way the Obama administration thinks you should respond to the death and injury of Americans by terrorist bombings is by telling a better story than that of the Islamists”.

In other words, their anti-terrorist strategy is story-telling.

[Pecos]

I am reminded of a communique sent by the German Foreign Minister at the time the Soviet Army was in the Berlin suburbs and massively shelling the city center. In that message, German foreign offices were encouraged to send only urgent traffic, owing to "administrative difficulties".

At first, I gave the current administration some small bit of credit, thinking they were merely incompetent. I can no longer hold that view. Having a President whose autobiography is entitled "Dreams From My Father" (a self-avowed Marxist) and a level of megalomania such that he considers a vote by an African-American for Trump to be a "personal insult", and a SecState whose BFF is allied by marriage to the Moslem Brotherhood, the only sane conclusion is that the current administration is actively working against the U.S. Please note that I have not brought up the former and current SecStates' documented corruption, selling of Cabinet-level access, the willful failure to protect an ambassador, or advancement of Iranian nuclear weapons. Those topics can wait for another post here.