Softpedaling Our Way Through the Threat Matrix

2011-10-13~ Perhaps one of Obama's favorite new developments is the turning of the Arab world toward a far more virulent strain of Islamofascism. FT.com (via Council on Foreign Relations): "Comment - Iran will benefit from this Arab spring":

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In my opinion, these revolutions are most likely fostered by Iran to consolidate their anticipated caliphate, esp. in Yemen as an effort to encroach on their chief rival the Saudi Kingdom. I expect the next move is to stir up the Shiites in Dammam (eastern Arabia).

2013-5-23.15:00~ In similar fashion to the Pollyannish desire to bring about intranational peace by disarming law-abiding citizens, liberals think (or claim to believe) they can establish world peace by eliminating, first of all, nuclear arms from the US & Israel. China apparently is taking advantage of the latest manifestation of their efforts (Obama's pledges toward winding down American nuclear arms) by secretly running a nuclear arms race against both the US & Russia. The Japan Times/Opinion: "China’s nuclear program still shrouded in secrecy"

2013-5-24.04:44~TheAtlantic.com: "How Guantanamo Bay's Existence Helps Al-Qaeda Recruit More Terrorists"

The above article cites a public statement by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan ("mouthpiece of the Taliban") & an essay by bin Laden in Inspire (the new Al Quaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fanzine) as evidence that Abu Ghraib & Guantanamo are recruiting tools for terrorists. I think Napolitano & Obama, in believing this trite talking point, are playing straight into the Islamoterrorists' hands, as the latter surely know that drone strikes are much more effective recruiting tools among heretofore moderate Muslims [leaving aside the difficulty of establishing ideological bounds for where Islamomoderates stand in the spectrum of Islamic sociopolitical positions between liberals (favoring tolerance of the existence & free religious expression of competing religions) & extremists (favoring violent means of spreading the religion)]. They know this so well that they know they don't even need to speak out against the drone strikes before their fellow Muslims in order to recruit new terrorists. The drone strikes do the work for them.
So why are we so gullible as to believe Obama's claim that drone strikes are a more effective means of conducting the campaign against terrorism than waterboarding in a piece of Cuba which escapes the attention of Arabic- & Farsi-speaking Muslims (the "propaganda cited in the above article is possibly in the English versions of these media for our ears only).