Apparently the administration has no one in it who has read Sun Tzu. Because if someone had, there would be no mistaking the principle “if you know yourself, and you know your enemy, you need not fear the outcome of a thousand battles”.
So who’s the enemy? The administration can’t name one. I can (’Islam’), but the administration insists that is not who we are fighting. Can you?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974294/posts
By the way, here’s a sample of Ron Pauls’ opinions on foreign policy from 1999, when a President we didn’t like was running the show. You won’t find any inconsistency in it.