Genghis Khan? Whoever it was that sacked Rome?

and what are the odds that someone credentialed with a PhD on "intersection of race, immigration, U.S. imperialism, and policing in New York City" would seek to weaken national security? impossible!

Odds are pretty much zero there.

If you expect me to take my eyes off the terrorists (foreign and domestic), the Russians, North Koreans and so on, to entertain your fever dream of, I don't know, Barak Obama or whatever being a threat, you're gonna be disappointed.

National security sir, is not a game.

if it's not a game then what is it?

Look, I'm familiar with the historical debate about whether this is game theory or art. I come down on the art side.

Game theory can deliver success in battle. In some cases, even war. But not in securing a nation. Which is a different matter entirely.

Books through the centuries and millennia from Sun Tzu to Machiavelli framing it as an art have proven more enduring than those framing it as a game. There is a reason for that.

You don't even have to be good at that art. But like any art you'd better at minimum have a discerning eye if you expect to have any chance of getting anything of importance that you may want. When you don't have a discerning eye, you start going after things that hold neither importance nor permanence. You expend all that well honed knowledge of game theory in the pursuit of foolish objectives.

Anyone that thinks that combination of credentials is the kryptonite that our nation's security is vulnerable to should spend some time examining their media intake. Local, State, and Federal law enforcement and the entire intelligence-industrial complex defeated by tweedy academics with social sciences degrees? Sure thing.