January 12 - How Terrorism "Experts" Keep Getting it Wrong; The Double Standard that Will Give Petraeus a Free Pass for Passing Classified Information to his Mistress; Why the Nigerian Government and Military Can't Combat Boko Haram

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with an analysis of reactions and over-reactions to terrorist attacks that often reward the perpetrators by falling into trap the jihadists set meant to drive a wedge between Muslims and the West. Dr. John Mueller, the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at Ohio State University and author of “Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security”, joins us to discuss the latest atrocities in Paris in terms of how the French might react to their so-called 9/11 and the ability of a handful of misfits to capture and hold the attention of the global media as they run amok on the world stage for days on end.

Part 2

Then we look into the increasing unlikelihood that General David Petraeus will be indicted for passing classified information to his mistress, as Senators McCain, Lindsey Graham and Diane Feinstein weigh in on his behalf claiming “he has suffered enough”. Melvin Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and author of “Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA” joins us to discuss the tabloid nature of the affair that ended Petraeus’s government career and those coming to his defense while the general “suffers” with million dollar consultancies and hundreds of thousands in lecture fees.

Part 3

Then finally we examine the indifference of the Nigerian government and the incompetence of its military facing the growing threat of Boko Harum terrorists who killed thousands of civilians in a northern border town after the Nigerian military garrison had fled. Ambassador John Campbell, a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria and the author of “Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink”, joins us to discuss rampant corruption that might explain why Nigeria’s five billion dollar military budget does not reach its soldiers in the field who are often not paid and are rationed with only 30 bullets to face the well-armed fanatics of Boko Harum.