Posted on 11/29/2004 2:42:48 PM PST by CHARLITE
Her name is maybe Nancy, Susan, or Ann, and she lives in a modest home in Virginia. Appointed to her post by President Bill Clinton, it was a “thank you” for her work on his campaign, a customary tactic of all Presidents. The only problem is her job. It is at the CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, and she actually decides what some independent contractors and Agency operatives will do overseas to gather intelligence or conduct direct action missions. Most of these men are former Special Forces officers and NCO’s, a few former Navy SEALs, and a couple ex-Marines.
This might be okay, except for the fact that this young woman has never heard a shot fired in anger. In fact, she votes against political candidates who are NRA members, refuses to watch PG-13-rated movies, but has no problem sending these contractors and Agency operatives into life-theatening situations in countries she would never visit but has seen in old Humphrey Bogart movies. She is fictional but is actually a blend of many characters at Langley.
Problem number two, I am so white, they could have named me “Saltine” and nobody would have blinked an eye. I am and dress “cowboy,” but always seem to get pulled out of the line at random for closer scrutiny at airports. That is okay, but I see guys on the same flight overlooked who look like extras from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. As the Chinese say, “That is like climbing a tree to catch a fish,” but after-all we must be “PC” you know.
As a young green beret captain in 1969, I kept trying to go back to Viet Nam, but they would not let me because of a medical profile. Instead, they made me Assistant S2 (Intelligence Officer) of the 3rd Special Forces Group, sent me to Intelligence Officer School (a contradiction in terms to many), and issued me a Top Secret security clearance. In the manner of FOX NEWS’ Neal Cavuto perusing the WALL STREET JOURNAL every morning, I would go to my office and read classified intelligence reports from the Mossad, British Intel, CIA, DIA, NSA, NSC, and so on. So, I think I know a little about intel.
The solutions are simple: We must, I do not mean “should,” I mean “must” hammer our legislators to significantly upgrade our depleted, sometimes-laughable intelligence and security services. They can no longer be “politically-correct!” They must be “nationally-correct!” The security of our country and its free citizenry is of much greater import than the distressed feelings of any religious group, nationality, or country.
Not counting the 3,000-plus innocents killed on 9-11; ever since April, 1983, we have had 813 people killed by Muslim terrorists on US soil by 12 vehicle bombs, 1 boat bomb attack, 2 airliners bombed, and 2 killed by a gun attack at CIA HQ’s. Those unsuspecting Americans were not killed by cracker cowboys, octogenarian grannies, or some of those others so frequently yanked out of line at airports. They were mainly killed by young mideastern men. Dare I speak of racial-profiling? Darned right, or do we simply want to appease the ACLU, while we lose some more innocent American housewives, cute little rugrats, and business men and women? Besides, to me; quite often, ACLU means “A Conspiracy to Legalize Undesirables.” Honestly, do we really need to suck up to them?
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) are a neat and necessary invention for intelligence gathering, as are satellite photos and videos, but for our very survival, the United States must now flood every terrorist breeding-ground country with trained, qualified agent-handlers, each with their own net of in-country agents. We must also propagandize, blackmail, or hire indigenous prostitutes, homosexual lovers of officials, disgruntled spouses, and the like to supply us with hands-on, eye-witness, on-the-ground intelligence reports, which can be evaluated and compared with electronic surveillance, news, internet monitoring, and other collection operandi. There are also Special Forces clandestine tactics, which can be added to this mix. Additionally, the CIA does not need its own army. It has always had the best available to it, US Special Operations forces.
Please contact your congressional legislators and tell them we need the politics and political-correctness taken out of intelligence services and homeland security and common sense and our safety put back in.
Finally, to our President George W. Bush: You have no more elections to face and have certainly proven you can stand your ground, Sir. These solutions, Mr. President, are a must in order to prevent any more 9-11’s. Like the Sierra-Hotel pilot you are, please get firmly behind this and push it to the envelope. You will leave the Al Queda in your vapor trail.
And while we are at it, since Al Jazeera wants to broadcast in the US, how about kicking their propagandizing butts to the curb?
Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, including a tour on a green beret A-team (Dak Pek) in Vietnam in 1968-1969, and was in the Top Secret Phoenix Program, is a top-selling author of 21 books, with over 1,500,000 copies of his books in print worldwide, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in southern Colorado. His pro-Bush/anti-Kerry editorials were widely-published in newspapers and magazines, and circulated by millions all over the world on the internet. He has been interviewed on FOX NEWS LIVE and on many radio shows and speaks all over the country.
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They are on some cable systems right now as part of the International Channel.
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