The Most Equal Comrade figures he's all we need to be secure in a world where post-America doesn't matter

A vignette that speaks volumes about the Most Equal Comrade's sense of himself as the figure who will usher in the age of unicorns and rainbows:

On a trip to Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's first term, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was stunned to find a telephone line at the military's special operations headquarters that linked directly back to a top White House national security official.

"I had them tear it out while I was standing there," Gates said earlier this month as he recounted his discovery. "I told the commanders, 'If you get a call from the White House, you tell them to go to hell and call me.'"
To Gates, the phone in Kabul came to symbolize Obama's efforts to micromanage the Pentagon and centralize decision-making in the White House. That criticism later would be echoed publicly and pointedly by Gates' successor, Leon Panetta.

The president's third Pentagon chief, Chuck Hagel, was picked partly because he was thought to be more deferential to Obama's close circle of White House advisers. But over time, Hagel also grew frustrated with what he saw as the West Wing's insularity.

The MEC knows how to charm jihadists and anybody else who doesn't yet get his charisma, don't you SecDefs understand?

Obama has been seen in the Pentagon as being overly suspicious of the military and its inclination to use force to address problems. To some in the Pentagon, the president's approach to the military seems particularly cool and detached when compared with that of his predecessor, Republican George W. Bush, who was more eager to embrace the military and accept its judgments.
Stephen Biddle, an occasional adviser to U.S. combat commanders, said the White House has fallen victim to "group think" and is distrustful of advice or perspectives that challenge its own.

"That's a bad policy development design," said Biddle, a political science professor at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. 

The MEC has been so far removed his whole life from the icky world of actual human history and the behavior of nation-states that he doubts that it really needs to be considered.  the only power dynamics he's ever studied is of the Alinsky sort, where various economic classes and demographic groups are vying to be top dog.  This business of strategic interests that affect the entire populations of countries - such as ours - is beyond his comprehension.  Back in Chicago, they used to just succumb to his charm. Won't that work against jihadists and Putin and Asian Communists?