Every time the president does something forceful related to national security, his PR machine goes into overdrive. Bin Laden gets shot, and we hear that it was Navy Seal Team 6 that did it, and we even get a name of one of the commanders. Now we are regaled with a New York Times account of Mr. Obama’s weekly “kill meetings,” during which the commander in chief, with top political adviser David Axelrod alongside, decides which global terrorists are next on the presidential hit list.
The American people don’t need all these details, Mr. President (though the terrorists do). Remember the World War II saying, “Loose lips sink ships”? Your administration has a serious case.
About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.
Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
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