Is This Incompetence? Or Intentional Subversion?

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Which raises a simple question: If not the Secret Service, who? Whom can we trust to do a decent job in DC?
This fiasco — and the news, long covered up, that the White House was hit by several bullets back in 2011 — isn’t just a problem for the Secret Service and its present management.
This seems to crystallize a more general feeling that stretches from Washington to the far reaches of the globe — the feeling that things are spinning wildly out of control and there’s no one even minimally competent enough at the highest reaches of American power to calm the gathering storm.
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In the past week, the question has arisen whether the president refused to acknowledge the rise of ISIS over the past year or whether the intelligence community underestimated the threat.
Either the president is right and the intelligence community has presided over its worst failure since the Iraq war, or he’s wrong (or lying) and simply closed his eyes to a situation he did not wish to see. No matter which is true, it’s a disaster.
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With more than two years left to his presidency, agency by agency, policy by policy, President Obama and his administration are running off the rails.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/01/american-incompetence-in-a-world-spinning-out-of-control/

American incompetence in a world spinning out of control
By John Podhoretz
New York Post
October 1, 2014 | 5:02am