David Frum

The next terror attack will be the fault of Kash Patel because he's an idiot and an expert at chugging beer in locker rooms, no doubt.

But maybe chugging beer in locker rooms is not the skill set you need when you're conducting.

In a very small size.

But meanwhile, the homeland is naked.

But that means you have to take on board the reality that there is really a war against this leading state sponsor of terror and not in any way either undersell the danger from Iran and not in any way put your fingers in your ears and say, la, la, la, we can't hear that there's a war on because whether you like the war or not, approve the decision to start it, it's on.

The hazard of approach to saying we're not going to fund the agency is it is not impossible that there is an outbreak of lucidity on the Republican side, because the strategy I just recommend that Democrats use against Republicans is available for Republicans to use against Democrats.

Right.

Well, that's the obvious play, right?

I mean, just imagine Karl Rover running the Republican Party right now.

And you had a Republican Party that was about winning elections, not about stealing as much money as it can before the roof falls in in November.

That's what he would do.

And it would work.

And by the way, it has the merit, as Henry Kissinger used to say about when he would offer a line of argument, he said, he would go, this argument has this advantage, this advantage, and it is the further additional merit of being true.

So this has a further additional method of being true.

The country is very vulnerable right now.

And Iran has a long history of conducting terror attacks, more in Europe than in the Western Hemisphere, but in Buenos Aires, in Washington, D.C.

a couple of years ago, they nearly assassinated the Saudi ambassador on his way to dinner at a popular restaurant here.

The British apprehended Iranian agents casing out the oldest synagogue in London.

You have to be prepared for this to be an Iranian tactic.

And the DHS is unfunded.