Where’s our Churchill?

FrontPage Magazine: “President Bush agreed to establish a director of national intelligence. He then appointed a foreign-service officer, John Negroponte, to serve as the first DNI. Negroponte defied congressional expectations by building an empire — a bloated office with over 1,000 employees, many of them torn from their line responsibilities elsewhere in the community and the often-important work they were doing there. Worse yet, he put a coterie of fellow foreign-service officers, like Tom Fingar, in key leadership positions. A number of these displayed a visceral hostility to President Bush and his most robust policies, including Fingar and the national-intelligence officer for weapons of mass destruction (lead author of the new Iran NIE), Vann Van Diepen, and yet remain in place even since Negroponte’s move back home to the State Department as its deputy secretary. The result of these institutional and personnel choices — as evident in this NIE — has been an unmitigated disaster. The insights into the real problems that led up to 9/11 have gone uncorrected. The intelligence community remains ponderous, unimaginative, and yet given to wishful thinking. Where hard knowledge is unavailable, judgments are served up that are either unfounded or simply ludicrous. The idea that Iran has given up its quest for nuclear weapons is only one of the most glaring.”

Frank Gaffney makes many points in this article about the Iranian threat and how like prior to world war II we are being failed by the Intelligence community.

You might wonder why I am spending so much time documenting this one issue on this Blog? I think what we do or don’t do about Iran is the most important issue we will face in the next ten years. If Iran goes nuclear we will be in World War III by early next decade. If their facilites are taken out the whole world terrorist network might collapse and moderates and peace might prevail in the whole Middle East region until the end time events of Bible prophecy arrive.