The Real National Security Threat

In David Ignatius's WaPo op-ed, "Baker-Hamilton Does Its Job", Ignatius insightfully comments:

"The Iraq Study Group's report achieved the goal of any blue-ribbon commission: It stated the obvious, emphatically."

He goes on to praise the report, but concludes:

"The level of anti-American sentiment in the Middle East these days is genuinely frightening. It has become the organizing principle of political life, even in once-friendly countries such as Lebanon. This is the real national security threat to America -- this sense in the rest of the world that Iraq symbolizes America's fatal new combination of arrogance and incompetence."