The coalition Obama put together only beat a weak sister like McCain by 53-48 in an election in which McCain shouldn't have won 40%. For now, he has the swing voters, who were repelled by Republican governance. That will change.
Obama is digging his own grave by hamstringing the CIA and the Pentagon this way. The jihad will bide its time. They have a somewhat passable understanding of our domestic politics. The pressure will ease on them, although I expect more Predator strikes in Afghanistan and whatnot. They will wait, perhaps a year, while Obama settles in and thinks he has them beat. They will plan and infiltrate.
George Bush handed off good tools to his successor to keep the Jihadis on the run. But Barack Obama thinks he's the Smartest Man in the Room and doesn't believe he needs what was in Bush's toolbox.
The last American politician who thought that way was Tom Dewey. Obama's good fortune is that he hasn't ran into his Truman yet. But he will.
The jihadis will strike deep inside the American interior. Probably VBIED's or a Mumbai variant, or, better yet from their point of view, a variation on the Beslan attack. This will come out of the blue, but not for a year, at least.
They want Obama to get all the blame because they want to show him to be weak and helpless in front of the other Muslims. They want to humiliate him. Humiliation and shaming is important in Muslim culture. It will be important to them that none of this get traced back to Bush, and that Obama get all the blame and responsibility. That's why UBL and Al Zawahiri will wait.
No attack for at least a year. As Lenin wrote, "peace is a time for gathering one's forces...".
As a result of believing his own propaganda, Obama is destroying himself without knowing it. And wait until Conyers and the Left in Congress get going. The CIA is in bad enough shape without the Left setting up a Star Chamber to investigate everyone it doesn't like.
The CIA mistook the good feelings they got from Democrats for cameraderie because they leaked against Bush. Now they are about to find out how wrong they were.
All the good feelings right now are the Quiet before the Storm. When this Administration unravels, it won't be pretty. Personality Cults never are.
Best,
Chris
His base already believe they have sacrificed long enough and have been promised justice and prosperity. It won't take a year to figure out other than an image to look upon their lives have not changed.
At this moment President Bush, in spite of what liberals attempted to tear down, has these terrorist just hunting shelters to hide.
Thus far Bama appears to me to be nothing more than an image who speaks what he is told to speak.
There are more players on the scene than just the jihads.