TOM CLANCY: First we crippled the CIA. Then we blamed it.

WSJ-OPINION JOURNAL ^ | 9/18/01 | TOM CLANCY

[SpyderTim]

Nothing short of a very timely bump!!!

[Liz]

Nothing short of a very timely bump!!!

Sure.....if you say so. LOL.

[Howlin]

Bump for a GOOD read!

[SpyderTim]

It's oviously timely because of the current effort to continue the blame game.

[KO5A]

" Not a problem. These sorts are dumb and ill informed and thus, perfect foils for my rapier."

OK so I came back to see what the brainwashed are up to,

and I have to say "Perfect foils for my rapier?"

Thanks - I haven't had such a good laugh in ages
To imagine any wit or wisdom in your thoughtless regurgitation of tired propaganda themes, please.

OTOH if you are taking down some big $$$ in Iraq as a merc or whatever scam you've got going I salute your enterprise, but please don't try to confuse a good scam with jingoism or saving the world for democracy or fighting the war to end all wars, or creating a thousand year reich, or..........(fill in banal slogans supporting war and $$$here)

I enjoyed re-reading my 2 year old posts, I see nothing has changed, and I re-iterate that all you mercenaries in Iraq and Afgan are doing (besides shaming my flag) is signing us up for the next 9-11.
thanks

[justshutupandtakeit]

Better a washed brain than a filty mind. Go climb back under your rock.

[hchutch]

I think this opinion piece, which appeared a WEEK after 9/11, is worth looking over.

Note the cause cited: A hamstrung CIA/intelligence community. And what proof emerged yesterday? A memo tying the FBI's hands in the intelligence front.

[Dante3]

Yes.

[GOPJ]

BINGO:

...the American news media, does not love the CIA in general and the field spooks in particular. As recently as two weeks ago, CBS's "60 Minutes" regaled us with the hoary old chestnut about how the CIA undermined the leftist government of Chile three decades ago. The effect of this media coverage, always solicitous to leftist governments, is to brand the CIA an antiprogressive agency that does Bad Things.

[verity]

That swamp philosopher, Pogo, was correct!

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[jwalsh07]

btt

[moehoward]

bumperoonie

[Howlin]

Marking this!

[Grampa Dave]

This has been the strategy and tactics of the rats since Jimmy Carter was president.

Weaken the CIA and other intel organizations with budget cuts and legislative rulings. Then when the predicable happens re failed intel with an act of terrorism, their mediot maggots jump on the band wagon of our failed intel.

[Liz]

Nice surfing to find this 9/18/01 post.

Needs to be read, and distributed, now.

The rest of the world needs to know now what we knew then: Clinton-Torricelli's collusion to tie the hands of our intel with their asinine Human Rights Scrub Policy impacted the 9/11 tragedy.

[Hollywoodghost]

It has been said that the things that make a civilzation great are the very things that destroy it. Stability of the Ancient Egyptians made them great in an unstable world but also destroyed them when faced with change. Our freedom has made us great but, it lets terrorists in to do harm. Out democracy that made us great can be used to undermine us in a quest for votes. Politiocians are only interested in their jobs and will do anything to keep them, even if it means the nation will fall or be forced to bow to enemies. We are not that same people who fought and won WW II. The people today could not wage that war. TV, Socialism, drugs and Liberalism's mantra of Muliculturalism has sapped away any reasons to fight. In a world where getting high is all that's important--nothing is worth dying for. These are sad time but, change is coming. Many more will die because of this "Hippiest Dictatorship of the Left".

[justshutupandtakeit]

I do not agree that ALL politicians are "only interested in their jobs." Some have integrity and some actually believe in what they profess and some are both. Few on the RAT side but there are even some there. Of course, what they believe is patent nonsense but they DO actually believe it.

If the people re-elect Bush then I would say they do have the capacity to fight and win another WWII. If not then you are correct. However, during WWII we did not have a press which existed only to whip up hatred of FDR and it did not particularly like him at the time.

Now we have a fifth column at home, the RATmedia, spreading poison and doubt among the population 24/7, generating full-blown attacks upon the President from NOTHING but LIES.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Yeah, I remember you. Exaggeration of the role of the militia in the Revolutionary War hardly qualifies you to comment on anything serious. You are willing to ignore the opinion of all who had to deal with them as exemplified by Washington and Hamilton. Military Know Nothings like Jefferson may have liked them but who cares what he thought about such matters being a military ignoramous.

Without a standing army you would not have a nation. The ineptitude of militias vs. a real army is demonstrated by the collapse of the Taliban when it had to face the US military. It was good at shooting women in the back of the head but not for facing a real fighting force.

Ooooh imagine us picking on that pooor Saddam and how unpopular we are because of it. Send me your address and I will send you some money to buy a clue.

Delusionary fantasys and hallucinations can't replace realpolitik in the world. Until they do your opinion isn't worth much.

Afganistan is better for our action there and our nation is far safer as well.

[prognostigaator]

<"Terrorism is a crime under the civil law when committed by domestic terrorists; it can be an act of war when committed by foreigners.

For domestic criminals we have the FBI and police. For acts of war we have our intelligence community and the military.

In either case we have well-trained people to do the work.

If we let them do their job, and give them the support they need, the job will get done as reliably as gravity.">