[Archangelsk]

Releasing the Bin Laden family was inept, naive and incompetent.

We can thank terrorism czar Richard Ashol Clarke for that.

How you make the connection between these two non-sequitors is beyond me, but, hey, whatever floats your boat.

[Enduring Freedom]

The connection between the two events - one, releasing the Bin Laden family after 9/11, and two, blaming Clarke, is simple.

a. The Russians have figured out that terrorists are not ephemeral ghosts. They have families, they have assets, they have neighbors and they have states that harbor them. Think of them as a WAN - wide area network;

b. By strategically targeting the wider area network infrastructure of the terrorists, which is an easy mark, one can then extract confessions, intelligence information and outright surrenders very quickly;

(still following along?)

c. This discourages future collaboration and complicity, and self-regulation within communities. If one day your uncle Fazoo threatens the Americans, and you knew as a result you and yours would be ultimately destroyed, you would be motivated, not to load his suicide belt, but to slit his throat;

d. The Bin Laden family offered a treasure chest of information and leverage following the attacks of 9/11;

e. Dick authorized the Bin Ladens be released in the fog of the aftermath of 9/11.

(there, I think you get it now)