Posted on 01/19/2006 9:35:40 AM PST by Jonah Johansen
Target Practice Washington’s enthusiasm for remote-control assassination is partly about boys with toys. But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri, we need to take a closer look at the tactic......
......Some accounts suggest the Germans gave no help at all, others that their main purpose was to make sure certain locations like hospitals, embassies and shelters were not hit. If so, and if they helped avoid another disaster like the 1999 bombing of China’s embassy in Belgrade, or an atrocity like the 1991 obliteration of a bomb shelter in Baghdad, then they did the United States a great service. They may not have saved us from ourselves in this thankless war, but they might have kept us from murdering even more Iraqi civilians
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Yes, it was a disaster.
A disaster for the terrorists who were killed.
I can see why somebody writing for Newsweek would be wringing his hands over this.
Look who he's worked for, I'm not surprised that he's paid to write crap.
He has also written for Foreign Affairs, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Wired, Rolling Stone, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Republic, among other publications. He is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC and National Public Radio, as well as other television and radio networks.
There, that's better.
It was a military bunker. IIRC, Saddam had a bunch of dissidents herded in there at gunpoint because he was aware it was a legitimate military target. (This was discovered later AND reported on) After it was hit, Saddam had Western reporters waiting and ready for a field trip to the "atrocity" and reaped the rewards of a propaganda gold mine.
There was an Iraqi command post in the building and the Iraqi military let civilians sleep there at night. It was an atrocity, but it was an atrocity by the Iraqi military. It's the same thing as them hiding SCUDS in mosques. They did it to provoke an attack for propoganda purposes.
I'm guessing the reason is he doesn't have any toys to play with, except one.
Well, well, well... once again NEWSWEEK is right on top of things, huh?
"But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri, we need to take a closer look at the tactic......"
OOPS, Mr Dickey, we killed 4-8 Al Qaeda operatives.
Yeah, a 'disaster'. Sure. For which side?
"But the only record I’ve come across of a successful assassination by Predator was in Yemen in November 2002 when six suspected Al Qaeda terrorists you’d mostly never heard of were blown to smithereens."
What!?!?! This strike whacked Abu Ali al-Harithi, who was the "mastermind" of the U.S.S. Cole bombing. A big fish and an honor killing - American style. What really got under the liberals' skins about this hit was that it occurred just before the mid-term 2002 elections and, quite possibly, helped the Republicans at the polls.
This is the sort of poorly written and irresponsible screed one expects from The Daily Worker or something of that ilk.
Interesting that Dick-ey came up with this article as our favorite hatemonger, Ted Rall, wrote an article this week calling the drone attacks "assassination by joystick". Little Ted also downplayed the Sept 11 attacks saying "they could have been a lot worse".
http://newsbusters.org/node/3646
Obviously.....the editor is pining in his wretched heart for another Mogadishu-like Ambush/Entrapment sitution involving US Armed Forces members.
They only killed 3 or 4 other top Al Qaeda operatives. Damn the bad luck!
I would give important parts of my body to have OBL lined up in the crosshairs of my 30-06 for three seconds. I know a lot of active duty guys who feel the same way. I don't need no stinking joystick - I want to see his head explode.
This piece begs for cheap cracks about squealing like a pig, and idiot children.
For Mr. Dickey's side, the enemies of America. Facts don't lie.
In that regard it's hard to top the opening piece here.
The author's a pig and his article squeals like an idiot child.
Asked about the significance of bin Laden’s message, Dean (Howard Dean) acknowledged that the recent attacks in Pakistan that killed four top al Qaeda leaders were probably useful.
Disarray on the left? ; )
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