Posted on 11/16/2004 5:34:42 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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This one's just hit the road, and it looks like he's leading a long line of them out the door at the CIA. High time, IMHO.
Ping. I've plowed through it, save your time and money and read Frum's review. He nails it.
It is disturbing, at the least, that a man who had such a large role in defending the nation from Islamic extremism seems to have been mentally captivated by it. I have a strong feeling that Scheuer's 15 minutes of fame have ended already
Thank heavens he's gone..Now for the resignations of those who approved his publishing the book while employed by the CIA..and being interviewed as "Anonymous"....Clean them out.
Frightening. This is the way the world ends (or at least humanity, the Earth has been around for 5 billion years and should be good for another 5 billion more) with both a bang and a whimper.
Big deal. We got nukes. Lots of 'em.
shit, I came to the same conclusion!!! Read the book and you will see a ideological conflict between an entrenched bureaucracy in fear of change and an administration hell bent on changing the mindset of this most important institution. This situation came to ahead in similar ways when Henry Kissinger came into the State dept to clean house under Nixon. Read Robert Kaplan's "The Arabists" to get an insight about this. The more thingd change the more they are the same...
Is this guy insane?
Give in to their demands and then watch Europe fall and do nothing?
IS he out of his mind?!
And I find it telling that he calls Israel a "theocracy" and "arrogantly racist." Not only is it an outright lie, but it is selective in criticism. Surely, the area of the world where Mein Kampf has great appeal and where non-Arabs are hated and enslaved(Sudan) would be a sign of racism?
Sounds like maybe the author has been steeped in studying muslim terrorists for so long that he's started identifying with them.
Stockholm Syndrome by Proxy.
We've all heard this list before; what's new here is a senior U.S. counterterrorism official agreeing that the demands included on it can and should be met
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WOW!!! What a revealing book!
This article has everything you need to shoot down the media's next Richard Clarke attempt.
Amazing.
The story I heard is that senior CIA staffers gave him permission to publish anonymously thinking that the book was potentially damaging to Bush's re-election campaign (which may be one reason the knives are out as we speak). It is, evidently, equally critical of senior CIA staffers, or at least that was the author's intention. That agency is currently in the process of a major flushing.
Diddle E. Squat says this article is a MUST for the coming attacks on Bush, Condi, etc. by any of the "leaking" people at the CIA, et al.!
Bookmark!
I'm not so sure. The degree of the author's appeasement mentality is so shocking as to validate Bush's CIA housecleaning for most who read the book.
Big deal. We got nukes. Lots of 'em.
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Takes a person with the will to use them.
That's what I understood the story to be as well, but someone had to sign off on this deal and whoever that was needs to go down the toilet as well. Not only is the CIA going to be purged, so is the State Department
Now you're talking. And also long, long overdue.
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