Frank Gaffney thinks speaking Arabic is a negative for a CIA chief
Writing for the Washington/Moonie Times - in an column with the ominous title of “A world without America: Obama Cabinet nominees want to manage U.S. decline,” anti-Muslim nutjob (and birther) Frank Gaffney says that the nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan’s ability to speak Arabic is actually a negative:
Mr. Brennan is a textbook example of a U.S. official who has ‘gone native.’ He speaks Arabic and was formerly the top CIA officer in Saudi Arabia. He has shown himself to be deeply sympathetic to Islamists — for example, excusing and dissembling about their commitment to jihad and the necessity of not offending them.
It’s the main argument in his thesis, which is that President Obama’s second term agenda is to “manage America’s decline:”
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly declared that ‘a world without America is not only desirable, it is achievable.’ While that sentiment won’t be embraced in President Obama’s inaugural address next week, all other things being equal, it seems likely to be the practical effect of his second term.
Of course, Iran’s regime seeks a world literally without America. More to the point, Mr. Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Tehran are working tirelessly to secure the means by which to accomplish that goal. Specifically, they have or are developing the ability to engage in devastating electromagnetic pulse attacks, biological warfare and other asymmetric terrorist strikes.
For his part, President Obama seems to have in mind bringing about a world without America in a geostrategic sense. As Mark Steyn notes in a characteristically brilliant essay in National Review Online, that would be ‘Obamacare’s other shoe.’ It would amount to a ‘fundamental transformation’ of America’s place in the world, evidently intended to be the president’s second-act counterpart to the socialist transformation of this country that dominated his first term.
This agenda is strongly evident in Mr. Obama’s choices for key national security positions: John F. Kerry at the State Department, Chuck Hagel at Defense and John O. Brennan at the CIA. The three are, like the president, imbued with a post-American, post-sovereignty, post-constitutional, transnationalist outlook. In his administration, it would appear that their mission would be, as the American Enterprise Institute’s Danielle Pletka puts it, to manage the United States’ decline.
Hat tip - Right Wing Watch