[WVNan]

I do agree that the military ought not to have announced that we would be launching an offense against the Taliban in the mountains come spring. I caught that one last night and just shook my head. Do they think they will find anyone home when they get there?

[sarasmom]

Do you think we announced it before or after the fact?
I must admit to a certain amount of disdain for the CIA, vs operational military intelligence.
In a perfect world, where Jimmy Carter remained unborn,shared classified raw intelligence information would seem to be logical and practical in the shadowland field of covert intelligence.
We live in an imperfect world.
Jimmy Carter was actually POTUS.
I doubt this country will ever fully recover from the damage he caused, and that his legacy of socialist elected officials still cause, to all spectrums of the intelligence community, among other unforgivable sins that only God, has the capacity to inflict righteous retribution, or even simple justice.
rant off.