You have just provided an excellent example of why it is always important to keep an open mind and to interact with people whose viewpoint is different from your own. From the manner in which you write, I conclude, you may have far more experience with military and diplomatic matters than I have-and possibly firsthand experience.
However, observing the development of American culture over the last 60 years, I suggest that they may be another explanation for many of the things that seem inexplicable from a purely national security perspective. Is remarkable how great this shift from the 1940s, when America intellectuals might have tilted a little to the right, to the end of the 60s, when the climate turned hard to the left in American universities. As early as the late baby boomers and certainly by the time of Generation X, the overwhelming weight of intellectual opinion on campuses was left the center. I’m struck by things such as the fact that Bill Clinton attended a meeting in Moscow in 1968 for the peace movement. John Brennan,, head of the CIA under President Obama, admitted that he voted for Gus Hall, head of the communist party in America, for president in 1976. I think of those facts when I think of all of those college kids wearing Jake Laura sweatshirts in the 70s and 80s.
I sometimes wonder about the loyalty of people who service in the government. However, thanks to you, I am reminded that I don’t have a whole the information. I need to form a fixed opinion.