Political Extremism Infiltrates the Pentagon

New Defense Department advisor Rosa Brooks is about as far to the left as one can go.
By Ryan Mauro

Brooks clearly does not see the horrid event as the culmination of a failed approach to a gathering threat, but an occurrence based on chance. Now, "al-Qaeda has become the vast global threat the administration imagined it to be in 2001," she says, owing it to the neocon administration's warped reality. The Israeli offensive in Gaza against Hamas also drew ire from Brooks. "The assault in Gaza has more to do with internal politics than its national security," she writes, apparently thinking that having neighboring territory controlled by a terrorist group that openly states its desire to destroy Israel isn't worthy of a military offensive. She opines that a military campaign won't bring about peace because Hamas will inevitably rearm and such actions create extremism, which foments the conflict. If this logic is true, then the U.S. might as well leave Afghanistan and stop any attacks on terrorist targets overseas. [more...]