Martha's Vineyard and reality

Hugh Hewitt has written his most important column in a long time.  He begins by noting that the Most Equal Comrade's inner cabal has declared that the situation on top of Mount Sinjar has de-escalated from crisis status, and then looks at the wider perspective:

Not everyone is buying into the world according to Martha's Vineyard. "The speed with which the Obama administration announced that the siege had been broken may cause some consternation overseas," the Times adds, "given the increasingly dire descriptions from aid agencies about the crisis on Mount Sinjar."

And the Saudis are not giving $100 million to the U.N.'s counter-terrorism center for no reason at all.

Here's the reality. Islamist radicalism is on the rise across the globe, and it is particularly centered now in Mosul, not Afghanistan. That radicalism has engulfed the opposition to Syria's butcher and forced its way across western Iraq to to the border of Kurdistan even as Assad with Iranian and Hezbollah help kills hundreds of its loyalists in Syria. Whatever the condition of the Islamists in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan --and by all accounts the Taliban are just waiting out President Obama before retaking large swaths of the country-- the wave of violent jihad is rising not falling. America is facing greater and greater danger and the president simply will not admit to this. If he does, he will be admitting what history will surely show: His grand strategy was no strategy at all. His eight years were an abject failure on the most important issue which is protection of America.

He then provides the transcript of an exchange between James Kitfield of Breaking Defense and Lt. General Michael Flynn, outgoing head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.  Read it. It will make your hair stand on end.

He then concludes with some clear truths:

My fear is that every bad actor in the world has taken this president's measure and understand that the next two-and-a-half years are the best hope for expansion and breakout in the next forty or fifty or more. The clueless president, the golfing Commander-in-Chief, presents a rare opportunity that everyone in Moscow and Mosul, Beijing and Teheran understand even if the network newsrooms don't. Which is why General Flynn sounded so grim. The serious people know, and the serious people aren't in Martha's Vineyard or with the negotiators in Geneva or advising in Kiev.

Pray that the awake and serious people outside of the U.S. do everything they can to rush arms to the Kurdish pesh merge, that Egypt's al-Sisi and Israel's Netanyahu keep the Hamas branch of radical Islam contained, and that the allies drag John Kerry from the rooms in Geneva before he gives the mullahs a nuke or two in a show of good faith in his own endlessly intoning voice and incoherent barrage of words. There is Harper in Canada, and Abbott in Australia --Abbott had his own very unique reminder shown off to the world yesterday-- and a few hundred million Muslims who hate the disfigurement of their faith this way.

But the person most responsible for responsibly dealing with the world as it is not as Martha's Vineyard would wish it to be, well, he doesn't want to deal with this mess, or at least acknowledge it.

Along the way, he also mentions the fact that W and Dick Cheney spent every morning looking at the latest threat matrix.  Do you have any confidence that the Most Equal Comrade ever gives it a glance?