Pink Blankie Alert

ORBAT ^ | 8-23-09 | Ravi Rikhye

[swarthyguy]

Ooooooh, the CIA is so mean that we want to beat them with a flower, and beat them every hour. What did CIA do now?

They interrogated a suspect, brandishing a power-drill and a handgun, and fired a single shot in an adjoining room to get the suspect to believe another suspect had been executed.

Media is in a flap, CIA is in a flap, and surely it's just a matter of time before Congress is in a flap. Let the denials, different versions, excuses, recriminations, special prosecutors etc. begin.

So here we have a suspect refusing to talk, what should the CIA have done? Brought him his pink blankie, bunny slippers, and hot cocoa so he shouldn't feel threatened?

Does anyone in this sense-forsaken media and government remember a time, not much over half-a-century ago, when New York's Finest didn't just show a suspect a drill, but used it on him to perform "emergency dental surgery"? Do they remember the days when Boston's Finest would club you to within an inch of death if you didn't move fast enough to satisfy them? And this was the police, not a front-line agency in the war to defend America.

Had the CIA interrogators actually executed another suspect in front of this particular one to make him talk, there might be the glimmerings of a story. But not a particularly interesting one to people like the British Special Air Service. They neither read suspects their, nor do they arrest you, they simply shoot you down on sight, and there's none of this "suspect put his hand in his waistband as if reaching for a gun" rubbish either. We can't think of a single nation aside from the EuroWimps bar the French where if a terror suspect refuses to talk some very bad things will happen to him.

The American people are simply horribly confused about what is going on with this terror thing. It is a war, and it needs to be fought as a war. What's simply wrong about Guantanamo is the simple fact of its existence. These are enemy combatants. They are NOT entitled either to Geneva because they fight from within civilians or to constitutional protections given to ordinary criminal suspects. They should have been executed on the battlefield. It is depraved, inhumane, and degrading to America to treat them the way they have been. Americans love to call themselves "warriors". Anybody bring to mind that being a warrior means granting a clean death to your captured enemy?

And as for the AQ planner and financer types, what America has done wrong is failing to break them quickly with extreme brutality, and then shooting them if they don't break, or shooting them after they have talked. Anything else is pure sadism, and we are very sorry to say, Americans seem both to have a taste and a flair for this.

May we also ask: what has this country come to when it (a) develops a program to assassinate its enemies; and then (b) subcontracts the actual killing to a private security firm? What is the matter with this country? Everyone is now running around saying the program was never activated and so Congress was not lied to, as if anyone cares about the pompous, bloated, eaters-at-the-public-trough who represent us in Congress. That's not the outrage. The outrage is the hiring of Xe aka Blackwater to pull the triggers. A country whose government cannot pull the trigger is not just degenerate, it is as good as dead.

Did you know Xe is maintaining and arming the UAVs CIA uses from Shamsi, Pakistan and its new base at Jalalabad, Afghanistan? What next? Xe operatives flying the UAVs? US Marine Corps subcontracting Helmand operations to civilians? Why not hand over the ICBMs and the Tridents to civilians too, while we're at it? And why not hand over the government, Congress, and the Presidency to subcontractors?

And purely peripherally, what is this stupidity of Blackwater naming itself Xe? Are they a division of a Japanese video game box company?

Enemies of America: your victory is assured. Do a few ops now and then, sit back, and watch America use its weapons not to kill you, but to blame itself to death

[Cronos]

Your eurocentrism can be the downfall — if we make this just a Christian v/s satanism (aka Izzlam) fight, that’s wrong — the worshippers of the devill attack hindus, buddhists etc. too

[Kenny Bunk]

Your eurocentrism can be the downfall...

An excellent point. We need all the allies we can get against the Muslim hordes and I shall not think of non-Christians who suffer the depredations of Islam just as we do, as heathens.