Five years later, that policy is in dual shambles. Mistrusting terrorists, it seems, is yesterday's foreign policy. This Administration has given up even pretending to look for a stick. True, a foreign policy of least resistance has its attractions. They are intangible, yes, but indispensable.
Weakness breeds contempt.
When you have no credibility, your enemies will seek you out anywhere in the world and blow you up. Real blood, real lives.