[WillaJohns]

Of course, neither I nor anyone else can prove that the warnings would have come . . .

Perhaps warnings DID come, but they were ignored.

[backhoe]

Let me be the first to flag & bump this excellent article, and suggest we forward links to it to newspapers and others, to help educate America...

[The_Expatriate]

Mr. Clancy is a novelist.

Correction: Mr. Clancy was a novelist, until he released The Bear and the Dragon, the most hilariously ignorant waste of paper I've ever had the pleasure of chucking in the trash.

[NittanyLion]

I'm a huge fan of Mr. Clancy, who has proven to be quite a prophet. I assume this is largely because he understands foreign and domestic affairs better than 99% of government employees. For instance...did anyone else watch Sen. Torricelli defend the need to have CIA field agents ask for permission from Washington to utilize rogue agents?

[Frumanchu]

An excellent article. BUMP!

[DreamWeaver]

American society doesn't love its CIA, for the same reason that it doesn't always love its cops. We too often regard them as a threat to ourselves rather than our enemies. Perhaps these incidents will make us rethink that.

I agree 100%.

[YaYa123]

I bet Rush reads from this article today. Sure hope so, along with recorded quotes from the speeches of liberals responsible for the crippling.

[The Raven]

already posted

[DeSoto]

"It is a lamentably common practice in Washington and elsewhere to shoot people in the back and then complain when they fail to win the race."

Great quote!!!

This should be chiselled into the marble of the Capitol building.

[tm22721]

If the enemy won't attack our high ground we must descend to their level in our to defeat them.

BUMP

[bvw]

What is the CIA good at?

At creating and inspiring the best damn excuses! Excuses are really a form of intelligence, doncha know. Yeah, that's the ticket ... the "product" is EXCUSES!

[biblewonk]

• Terrorism is a political act, performed for political objectives. The general aim of terrorism is to force changes in the targeted society through the shock value of the crime committed. Therefore, if we make radical changes in how our country operates, the bad guys win. We do not want that to happen.

This statement gives the terrorists too much credit. It assumes they are NOT a bunch of insane, possessed idiots seeking revenge on someone that has done them no wrong at all. Everytime the media interviews an expert in Islam or an expert in why these people hate us, I am always releived to find that their hate is baseless. They hate us for no good reason at all. It further justifies our retaliation.

[biblewonk]

I've been saying for a lot of years that this number is too small. American society doesn't love its CIA, for the same reason that it doesn't always love its cops. We too often regard them as a threat to ourselves rather than our enemies. Perhaps these incidents will make us rethink that.

Boy is this true and a lot of paranoid freepers need to consider it.

[right]

Bump

[bvw]

The best defense against terrorist incidents is to prevent them from happening.

Baseless, silly. dangerously deluded thinking. Their are "political" terrorists who resort to terror as a last resort when none other are available. I'd put the IRA in that group. This one you can stop by providing an honest political and social remedy.

Then there are two other classes, at least, one being the kind we are now up against with its faction among the Arabs -- suicidal zealot -- the culture of the Assassin. The other being the sociopaths like the UNABOMBER.

In those cases, the terrorist is motivated by the love of terror, of death, of infliction of suffering. The terrorist will find a way to make these occur. Perverted necessity is the mother of invention, too.

Those can only be stopped by wiping out the persons and culture that spawns them. Sorry -- that's way it is. Set a lesser target and we'll be suffering terror again and again.

[Straight Vermonter]

Frank Church is dead but maybe we can bring Carter up on charges of treason.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

BTTT

[1Old Pro]

And the media praised Clintoon for gutting our intelligence funding. We have met the enemy, and it is the leftists and the media.

[MooCollins]

BUT, BUT,
That's the American way!

[aculeus]

The anti-CIA rats still live. Even on this thread.