Our Keystone Kommanders

Consider Exhibit A:

Maj. Gen. Michael K. Nagata, Commander of US Special Operations Forces in the Middle East -- on record uttering the following Klueless Klaptrap:
 
“ISIS Ideology is a conundrum”
“We do not understand the movement”
“We have not defeated the idea. We do not even understand the idea.”

And, naturally, the Mainstream vaunts this Keystone Komander, General Nagata, as a robust leader:

Meet the Shadow Warrior Leading the Fight against the Islamic State

More like shadow-boxing against the imaginary silhouettes of "radicalized Islamist jihadist extremists"...