Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Brain Trust - Dr. James Jay Carafano

Dr. James Carafano is one of the nation's leading experts in defense and homeland security. He is the director of Heritage Foundation's Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies. He came on The Matt Friedeman Show as the Brain Trust of the day. Here are the "CliffsNotes" of his segment.

Did we handle the Libya situation right?

Certainly we didn't do it right, and whether it comes out right or not remains to be seen.

I think right now the most troubling concern would be a sustained guerrilla movement that would continue to harass the government.

This is far from over.

Where will this situation go from here?
I think we could go in any one of a number of directions.

You've got disparate people in the government who want different things.

They're really more concerned with their interests than they are with the interests of the Libyan people.

Now we're going to find out where they really stand.

I have just as many question marks today as I did on day one.

What is the Obama Administration's plan for continuing to handle this?
They've been very close-lipped in terms of sharing information with the Congress.

This is very ironic, since all they said about being the most transparent administration.

With 9/11 coming up, how more secure are we than we were 10 years ago?
We're very secure right now. At least forty terrorist plots have been exposed.

The real question is how secure are we as we're going forward.

Heritage just last week put out two reports, A Counterterrorism Strategy for the "Next Wave" and Homeland Security 4.0.

I think if we go where Obama wants to go, we could actually be moving backwards.

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