“First: There is nothing he is willing to take responsibility for directly. That’s why he has appointed lackeys.”
I think it is the other way around, the lackeys appointed 0.
“While he limits any sparse references of “war” with the global Islamic jihad movement to just AQ, he appears to be waging an all out war with our own intelligence agencies.”
This is a problem, for both the “lackeys” and the CIA. He may start acting like he actually is the C-in-C.
You’re right. Seriously, he just might start thinking he *can* start acting like CIC and he’s clueless and we can’t be sure which side he’s on and he probably doesn’t know either. He just doesn’t want to be blamed.