OUR REAL ENEMIES ARE COUNTRIES

The 9-11 Report which I've actually read, or at least scanned very well, makes a recommendation which strikes me as absurd: the Intel Tsar. This is illogical if you think about it. A further castration of the CIA, FBI, and other agencies. Can you seriously imagine a Tsar not making policy? He who has the gold makes the rules and the Tsar will have the budget control. This again means, "tell me what I want to hear or you don't get any money."

Another shortcoming is the failure to properly identify our enemy. I firmly believe that we have a hundred or so classic Arab ruler wannabees lacking the tools to take over a country or Empire who are being "bought off" by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and perhaps a few more petro-stans. To the extent that Saddam "helped" them we can say a second domino has fallen and joins Afghanistan as a former terror haven and supporter. The rest are fueled by the Saudi funded Wahabi brand of Islam which both Syria and Iraq kept out of their countries through the state terror apparatus each sponsored.

I submit to you that our real enemies are countries; the the above named bankers of terror. Until we knock off these countries we will have terrorism. Arabs side with winners and right now Wahabbi Islam looks like a winner for them. Keep in mind that Turkey is going to be an Islamist state soon and Eurabia will welcome them with open arms, and when Turkey joins the support group we will have an even larger problem poised on the borders of Eastern Europe, southern Russia, and Greece. This is why the rumored Putin offer of troops to Iraq makes a lot of sense. Putin realizes the threat without articulating it. He will send a strong symbolic message to both Iran and Turkey that there are two big dogs in this fight. If we let Iran get the bomb you can bet that radical Islam will have a super-power of their own to rally around.

Our "war" is with actual countries, and I think this is more than the American public is willing to take on. Now.

A new Tsar is the absolute worst idea since keeping J. Edgar Hoover as a Tsar in the FBI for almost thirty years.

The rest of the report does as good a job as possible and leaving Iraq off the table makes the report accessible to everyone. Our other problem of rampant government employee careerism is a subject I'll cover tomorrow.

Late Add: for a different slant on the above POV go here for Ledeen's take.