What he isn't saying, presumably knows, and is himself cynically ducking, is that no real constituency exists for a serious policy in the matter. Instead he pretends the problem is partisanship in some equal sense and can be avoided by just having a group hug and agreeing to be more grown-up. Sorry, that's juvenile itself. He is right in the diagnosis but unwilling to call the left what it is. Everybody is afraid of an utterly irresponsible left and the public support it commands.
And as a result, no one including Newt is living up to the height of the times, or telling the whole truth to the American people.
You are correct.
The other half is that (at least in the article) Newt fails to mention that In WW II we had serious allies that were also committed to the struggle against Fascism.
With Fascism re-emergent in the Middle East with a nearly inexhaustible supply of money our traditional allies are cowering in fear of offending the rich Arabs to which there economies are enthralled. Europe is also so crippled by their fear of being seen to be xenophobic or illiberal that than insist on being blind to the threat with in their own boarders that is the ballooning Muslim immigrant population.
Newt is correct but he is too busy image polishing to be blunt.
“Sorry, he is simply right.”
He is. This Administration has allowed the left to dictate the public opinion of the efforts thus far. While we are winning on the ground, we are losing in perception.