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by Alan Caruba:

On March 13, 2012, I wrote a commentary, “Obama’s National Security Advisor ‘Went Native’ Years Ago” in which I cited a YouTube video in which Brennan praised Islam and Arab culture. At one point he addressed them in fluent Arabic. In 1996 he was the CIA station chief in Riyadh when a truck bomb killed U.S. servicemen. He has a long record of bad judgment and bad decisions regarding U.S. policy in the Middle East and one wonders if he had a hand in the Banghazi scandal cover-up that was initially passed off at a random attack triggered by a video no one had seen.

His rise to the top ranks of the CIA ensures his selection will influence its approach to the rise of Islamism throughout the Middle East, including Obama’s tilt toward the Muslim Brotherhood and its takeover of Egypt, and the current Syrian civil war in which al Qaeda is playing an active role beside the Syrian rebels seeking to remove its dictator. That said, Brennan gets credit for his  reported role in the assassination of Osama bin Laden and further efforts to degrade al Qaeda. It is a curious juxtaposition given his admiration for Islam and Arabs in general.

http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.ru/2013/01/bad-nominations-worse-future.html