One would think that our Intelligence Community would have had an idea that the Syrian government might soon be overwhelmed by ISIS and al Qaeda rebels or that South Korea was on the brink of a Constitutional crisis.
Yet, as far as I can tell, both events were a complete surprise to the United States of America.
Given that the United States is deeply involved in the Middle East and in Syria in particular, you would imagine that the collapse of the front lines in the civil war might be considered a big enough deal to have been anticipated by somebody. And given that the United States has more than 28,000 troops and is still technically a participant in a war between North and South Korea, you would expect that we might have a better-than-average insight into Korean politics.
If your thinking went in this direction, you would have been wrong. From all…
