Thanks to the utter fecklessness of the administration, foreign policy may be a significant campaign issue next year.

[Update a while later]

Welcome to the Islamist Middle East:

First, to describe the Obama administration’s Middle East policy as a disaster — I cannot think of a bigger, deadlier mess created by any U.S. foreign policy in the last century — is an understatement.

Second, the dominant analysis used by the media, academia, and the talking heads on television has proven dangerously wrong. This includes the ideas that revolutionary Islamism doesn’t exist, cannot be talked about, is not a threat, and that extreme radicals are really moderates.

I won’t review all the evidence here, but it amounts to a retreat for moderates, allies of the West, and American interests coupled with an advance for revolutionary Islamists.

I blame George Bush. No, really. I supported removing Saddam Hussein because I thought that the administration had a strategy. I was apparently wrong.

And now Obama has simply compounded it.

[Update a while later]

This is worth repeating:

Without taking any position on climate issues, let me put it this way: Why are people frantic about the possibility that the earth’s temperature might rise slightly in 50 years but see no problem in hundreds of millions of people and vast amounts of wealth and resources becoming totally controlled by people who think like those who carried out the September 11 attacks?

Good question.