With Obama now looking for his fourth SECDEF in six years, his foreign-policy in tatters and the Oval Office's relationship with the Pentagon and the military in general obviously let's say
troubled people are wondering what is causing this malaise and coming to the conclusion it's groupthink taking control of Obama and his inner circle and leading to the spoilage of good ideas and coherent strategic thought.
How is this new? The liberal elite is defined by its contempt for other people's ideas and anyone who does not share in their ostensibly enlightened view of things - they're idealists and therefore by nature, given the flimsy assumptions that hold their ideological pretensions together, must guard against open debate and the opinions of skeptics. These people are all about groupthink.
No clear thinking unbiased person should be shocked at all by what we're seeing here. Obama came into into office with the clear intention of emasculating American power and shrinking its strategic footprint - his arrogance, seconded by the grotesque delusions of the liberal elite, told him that the vacuum left behind would be filled by his Progressive brilliance and the world would be led by him into a new and oh so pretty direction. (What would've been of note is if such a detached from reality view of things had not brought Obama into conflict with the reality-based community of the military. It was a virtual guarantee that the US military would come to dislike and distrust this commander-in-chief - and I'm guessing the distrust began when he ignored the advice of his generals and decided to apply an arbitrary endpoint to his phony 'surge' in Afghanistan)
Again, anyone who bought into the utter nonsense spouted by this man should be utterly ashamed of themselves. There is absolutely nothing surprising about how awful a president this guy is.
