“I think it’s now crystal clear to us that our strategy, our policy vis-à-vis [the Islamic State] is not working, and it’s time to look at something else,” former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell remarked Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation.

Morell is not some gun-slinging partisan, and his statement was hardly controversial. In fact, it seems to be one of the few things everyone not on the Obama White House payroll agrees to be true.