Posted on 11/12/2004 9:04:40 PM PST by TexKat
nopardons:
Sir...you truly have no idea regarding the luminosity of my bulb. And I sincerely would suggest that you includes factual support for anything you have to say.
And with that...re-read my posts.
Ladyinred:
Please re-read my posts. It really helps to do that before commenting.
Words have set meanings.An agent is NOT the same thing as an analyst;though both are employees.And in not recognizing this,you prove that you are a dullard.
I read your posts and once was more than enough.Unlike you,I not only comprehend the written word,I also am more than capable of extrapolating on the ideas,thoughts,and facts conveyed therein. To whit...this man was a product of it's not what you know,but who you know,as well as also being totally in over his head at the CIA.Now,he is shilling a spurious book.
Have you ever read any of his columns? Have you read his book? If you have and still write the drivel you have done,then you are even less able to grasp the meaning,than I thought.If you haven't read any of his work and are posting this drivel,then you are only slightly less benighted;which isn't saying much of anything,since his stances have been posted to this thread and are in the article.
Your suggestion to me and ladyinread are unwarranted.OTOH,you really should take that advice to heart,for yourself.
Alas, my friend, you are at cross purposes which is certainly not to your discredit, because your adversary is speaking code.
The code is that no consideration for the survival of American democracy can be contemplated if it conflicts with their perceived notions of Israeli security.
Gender-non-specific greeting...continue in your tirade if you wish. It bears no semblance to civil discussion. If you wish to flagellate over semantics it is your choice.
22 years. What does that mean in pension?
I read about Imperial Hubris in The Atlantic Monthly, and figured I should browse it the next time I went to the bookstore. I didn't find something I could easily dismiss when I started reading it in the bookstore, so I bought and read the it.
While I don't agree with everything presented within, on the balance, Scheuer makes some damn painful points about the way we're going about our war on terror and the nature of our adversaries.
Hmm... Damning himself I'd say... Not exactly something to brag about.
A whole lot of focusing going on 'round here. Yep, we're focusing, focusing, focusing...
Maybe he has no business breathing. Possibly he was under the demo-commie hypnotic trance with the song, "Give Peace a Chance" seared in his minute liberal mind. It took shrillary/reno to raise that idiot.
Great progress! First, McLaughlin and now this guy. Porter Goss is kicking butt and may actually make the CIA into an effective spy agency. Let's get rid of all these leakers, backbiters, and snide "experts" and get some people with cajones in there.
You can be plugged into info and be totally wrong---look at some of Omar Bradley's decisions during WW II, or McClellan during the Civil War: he had Robert E. Lee's entire battle plan in front of him and analyzed it 100% WRONG.
Your ideology DRIVES how you interpret info. If you think that the "Joos" are behind everything, you will constantly draw the wrong conclusions. This is another turd that needs to be flushed from the CIA. The very fact that he can't keep secrets puts his "creds" in doubt.
Ok, specifically what?
This guy reminds me of all the other Clinton security chiefs like Richard Clarke.
If you read between the lines of what they are saying, it is that appeasement is the way to go. Fight back a little but mostly negotiate and give them a little of what they want. Then they will be satisfied and go away.
AND THAT WAS the policy that Clinton's administration followed and what followed from that was 9/11 and extreme Islamic extremism.
Can't the CIA shut him up? Can't they just classify everything he knows?
bump
"Scheuer was chief of the CIA Counterterrorist Center's unit which focused on bin Laden from 1996 to 1999 and remained a CIA analyst after that."
In other words, after four years of incompetence, even the clintonoids couldn't stand him and he was demoted to a position where he couldn't do as much damage.
"Scheuer's statement said senior leadership had allowed the intelligence officers working against al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to be made scapegoats for pre-Sept. 11 failures.
Scheuer was chief of the CIA Counterterrorist Center's unit which focused on bin Laden from 1996 to 1999 and remained a CIA analyst after that."
"You don't have to like the guy, you can question his motives....but it makes sense to analyze what he's saying. His creds are legitamate."
Why no outcry over the Gorelick WALL???
Mediots Whining = Goss is sweeping out the trash.
What is his analysis of what we are doing wrong? That is the question. There are errors we are making, that is certain. But so far, the critics have not offered constructive suggestions that would improve the effort as opposed to harmfully undermining our war effort.
What is his analysis of what we are doing wrong? That is the question. There are errors we are making, that is certain. But so far, the critics have not offered constructive suggestions that would improve the effort as opposed to harmfully undermining our war effort.
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