TROUBLING TIMES

It should be troubling to Americans  that the president-elect has little use  for intelligence briefings, asserting that he is "smart", when within memory, another president  chose to ignore a briefing  that warned of an imminent attack by terrorists, opting instead to go back to cutting brush on his Texas  ranch. He could have said, "Not on my watch," and headed back to Washington. We all know of the horrific misjudgment that followed the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers, unwarranted invasion  of Iraq and tremendous cost in lives lost, and dollars misspent.