Posted on 09/30/2001 7:24:00 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow
More CIA Revelations - Political Correctness Kills
Christopher RuddyWhen former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the infamy of Sept 11 a "wake-up call from hell" he meant just that. His characterization demands repeating again, and again, because worse than Sept. 11 will happen unless we heed the call.
Monday, Oct. 1, 2001
I am not so sure the commissars of Political Correctness that so dominate our media, our government bureaucracies and other institutions, are willing to unshackle the will of the American people – and allow us to destroy the terrorists and the nations that back them.
President Bush has done a remarkable job – especially in light of the hand he inherited from the previous administration. It is also important to remember that a hidden problem for the Bush administration is that the U.S. government, including our Pentagon, CIA and other agencies, is still largely run by appointees of Clinton-Gore or the career military and bureaucrats Clinton-Gore promoted through the ranks.
The same people that left us vulnerable to the acts of Sept. 11 are now claiming they will solve our future problems.
I believe long term good will only come out of this catastrophe if we learn from the events of Sept. 11, hold accountable the people in our government who failed us, and make necessary reforms.
If we don’t do this, it is doubtful we will exist as a great nation ten years hence.
We should also heed the Roman statesman Cicero, who remarked that great nations are not destroyed from the barbarians outside. It is the civilized people who will destroy the nation from within.
The logic of this is simple: there will always be barbarians outside the gates. It is up to us to have the character and strength and the will to defend against them.
Before Sept. 11, P.C. thinking taught us that nothing we do matters; character didn’t count. It was the Age of Clinton. After Sept. 11, the overriding lesson is that everything we do counts - character does matter.
Even the liberal Boston Globe recognized this. Breaking from the P.C. crowd, it reported that Clinton’s sexcapades and scandals detracted from his ability to focus on hunting down Osama bin Laden. That story got almost zero national press coverage.
And the Globe and many media still haven’t talked much about what happened at the CIA.
Political Correctness Ruined the CIA
Our loyal readers will remember that NewsMax broke the story, within hours of the attacks, about how P.C. thinking by Clinton and Senator Toricelli had prevented the CIA and its many patriotic members from doing their job. The CIA was effectively banned from recruiting unsavory characters to penetrate terrorist cells.
But that was just a small part of how P.C. thinking has undermined America and the CIA.
During the past decade, the CIA has been twisted from an intelligence gathering organization with a mission to protect America and her citizens - and turned into a model of political correctness.
Under Clinton, the CIA was told to stop focusing on spying and start focusing on P.C. agenda items like global warming.
Worse, the CIA staff was to become a model of P.C. ideology.
One analyst retired in disgust after the agency had appointed a person to become a lead analyst for a particular country.
This person was qualified because she was black, a female, and had graduated from an Ivy League college with a high GPA. The CIA was not concerned that the young lady did not speak the language of the country she was to analyze, nor had she ever visited the country.
She did prove, however, the CIA was diverse.
Diversity Defined the CIA
As anyone who worked at the CIA can tell you, "diversity” was the buzzword that animated the agency during the Clinton years. Diversity was the mission and the goal.
A CIA operative close to the Mid-East told me that the agency was even placing women in countries like Islamic ones where the culture does not view women progressively.
While this policy demonstrated the agency’s commitment to diversity - it effectively cut its female operative out of any serious interaction with the host country’s political and military establishment.
P.C. thinking dominated all the activities of the agency. CIA employees were regularly hit with a barrage of Orwellian P.C. workshops and literature explaining how they needed to be, well, sensitive and open to diversity.
One analyst, still a CIA employee, told me about one CIA sensitivity training seminar he had to sit through. The presenter, an expert in diversity, gave a Powerpoint presentation on the benefits of diversity.
One slide showed an American Indian sitting on the ground making beads. The presenter explained: "American Indians have a long tradition working with beads. They are good with beads, and they have, in modern times become good working with wires.”
Another slide showed an African-American professional sitting at an office cubicle on the phone. The presenter explained: "African-Americans are particularly sensitive to being interrupted while on the phone. You should avoid doing this.”
As the analyst explained, "They were creating new stereotypes as the were complaining about old ones.” The CIA had become the Central Intelligence Agency for Diversity.
How sad. How dangerous.
No wonder with an annual budget of $60 billion there was no warning, no informant in a the Sept. 11 network that several experts say must have numbered 300 people working in several countries.
Commissars Won’t Heed Wake-Up Call
I could swallow the government’s failures of Sept. 11 if we heeded the wake-up call, exposed the problems of P.C. thinking at the CIA and elsewhere, and made reforms.
But the commissars of political correctness that control the major media will have none of it. Consider how there has been practically no criticism by the major networks of President Clinton’s stewardship of our national security agencies.
The same commissars that were, in the middle of this horrific crisis, attacking Pres. Bush, will not utter any criticism of Bill Clinton.
In fact, Clinton was actually being praised! NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Alan Greenspan’s wife, was on air spewing her venom for Bush, complaining that he was not, like Bill Clinton, a "Comforter in Chief.” You see, according to P.C. thinking, Bush’s desire to stay up in Air Force One to insure the continuity of government was less important than going to New York to cry, hold hands, and show how we "feel.”
Criticism of Clinton is taboo precisely because the major media know that criticism of him is criticism of them. They supported him and the bizarre P.C. thinking that has possessed them and brought us to the point of Sept. 11.
So instead, of heeding the "wake up call” – the PC commissars in the media are continuing to play old tricks.
Within hours of the attacks, I heard P.C. anchors and commentators spinning that these events proved America does not need missile defense. Don’t they care that the very same countries behind the terrorists are feverishly building and developing long-range missiles capable of hitting many American cities at once?
No, the commissars never lose an opportunity to spin.
Worse, the CIA staff was to become a model of P.C. ideology.
I saw some of this crap...and it was definitely before the Clinton Administration. The biggest misperception about the agency is that it is full of right wing zealots. In fact, it is chock full of left-wing globalist types. A real rathole that should be shut down.
What about those who provided logistical and financial support to the 19? What about those Muslim governments which provide facilities for their training? And what about those who rejoiced over the murder of my countrymen?
Yes, there are a billion Muslims in the world. What do they want? Ever read the Koran to see what they think about Jews and, to a lesser extent, Christians? Ever notice how non-Muslims are treated in a Muslim dominated society? Ever notice how when Muslims are even a significant minority, the relationship with the majority faith in a country is not smooth (e.g., India)? IF, as some claim, Islam is a religion of peace, is time for those who claim that to put their money where their mouths are and help us exterminate those who would destroy our way of life and use Islam as the excuse.
I see. You wouldn't be French by any chance, would you?
I see you believe in the traditional "blame the Jews" approach. Well, it has worked in the past. I guess when something works for you, you stick with it, right?
“Why have they [FBI and CIA] been spending their resources chasing after a few people who were no harm to society, such as one loner on a mountaintop at Ruby Ridge and a pathetic religious group in Waco, while the plotting foreign terrorists crossed our borders and lived in our country illegally, got their flight training in Florida, and freely boarded our planes under their own names?” — Phyllis Schlafly
I don't think for a second that the EXTREME right wing in this country as exemplified by Tim McVeigh and William Pierce has ever enjoyed such a nod even from those such as myself who could be considered hard core right wing. Nearly all conservatives(whether hard core or RINO) condemn the actions of McVeigh and Identity dogma unequivocally. (even though we have shared views on RKBA and "culture war")
I do agree that the Afghans need our help against the Taliban and .....I hate to use that word..."nation building".
Any government to succeed in Afghanistan will have to be weighed towards the Pushtun majority regardless.
Since they could do it themselves, they deserve to go bankrupt!...FRegards
Or use NetScape which gives you no such problems.
And if you need "comic" relief? Israel was criticized for "checkpoints" which was inconveniencing the terrorists attempting to enter Israel. Evil Israel put up checkpoints. LOL. Tell it to New Yorkers attempting to get into Manhattan.
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