Posted on 11/17/2004 10:59:58 AM PST by Howlin
“The Sheriff,” as new CIA Director Porter Goss is becoming known, is getting rave reviews from the agency’s rank and file for serving notice to the Rogue Weasels that their left-wing views and attempts to sabotage the Bush Administration will receive zero tolerance. “Watch for a lot of road kill on 123 (Route 123, the highway in McLean, Virginia that goes past the CIA main entrance) as the weasels scurry away,” I’m told.
Found lying on the roadside yesterday (11/11) was weasel leader Mike Scheuer, who wrote the Bush-trashing “Imperial Hubris” book under the pseudonym “Anonymous.” While a lot of what Scheuer wrote was right on the mark, namely his withering criticism of the FBI and of senior agency guys (like Tenet) doing the CYA dance over 9/11, he twisted it all into bashing Bush and making an argument for John Kerry-type terrorism-is-a-nuisance-and-law-enforcement problem. That the CIA Review Office allowed him to write this book is a scandal never to be repeated under Sheriff Goss’s watch.
But even better news than the departure of the CIA weasels is the departure of their counterparts on the National Security Council of the White House. Bob Blackwill’s sudden resignation from the NSC, where he was Bush’s key advisor on Iraq and Iran, is a cause for real celebration.
No, that's not his point. His point is that bin Laden wants to destroy the US for specific reasons. One is our support for Israel. One is our having troops stationed on the Saudia Arabian peninsula. One is Iraq. One is our support for autocratic dictators in the Middle East.
These seem pretty obvious to me, but then I've actually read bin Laden's speeches. But still when I read people talking about bin Laden's reasons for attacking us, they talk about abstractions like "modernity", that he hates us because we are "free," stuff like that. Scheuer suggests that we take bin Laden at his word.
Thanks for posting that.
That the CIA Review Office allowed him to write this book is a scandal never to be repeated under Sheriff Goss’s watch.
I wonder who THIS guy is????
One report I read said that he left after the "higher ups" wouldn't let him go on TV with his book.
Scheuer is not credible. He is also an example of how messed up the CIA is and has been since the Clinton administration neutered the agency. Scheuer is an idiot that thinks he knows all that there is to know about Bin Laden and muslim terror and the middle east and Iraq and it is clear from his own mouth he knows very little and is an irrelevant little man who would like the old media to believe he speaks with the authority of the CIA and all that the conjures up. Nothing to see here folks, move along.
"One is our support for Israel. One is our having troops stationed on the Saudi Arabian peninsula. One is Iraq. One is our support for autocratic dictators in the Middle East."
All these reasons just boil down to our standing in the way of fundamentalist Islam from taking over first the middle-east and ultimately the world, as commanded by the Koran. That is bin Laden's plan for the world.
So ultimately, it is our being modern, free, and non-Muslim that causes him to hate us. The rest is all eyewash.
If you have really followed bin Laden's speeches and justifications for terrorism, you must know that he has not been consistent in his complaints, he has been all over the map in his claims about what he wants, including the demand that we turn over Spain or Andalusia, as he calls it. Do you think that we should return Andalusia to the Moors in order to appease this monster?
I don't care what Osama wants or does not want. He attacked this country by killing three thousand innocent people in a sneak attack. He must die and his movement must be crushed. We did not dither around with the Japanese about whether or not they had a point about their right to develop an Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. We killed those responsible and we reworked Japanese society to make sure it did not happen again. We must do the same in Iraq and the Middle East. We cannot reward terrorism or we will get much more of it.
Scheuer is a gutless appeaser and giving his view even a second's worth of consideration will only weaken our resolve to get done the tough job that has to be done to win this war.
"So if Scheuer is against Bush and against Israel, who is he working for?"
Well, he was working for the CIA.
He was working for the same folks as Aldridge Aims.
"results being that Osama, if he was there, and a large portion of Al Qaeda operatives at Tora Bora escaped through a cordon manned by our Afghan auxiliaries."
And we could have got 250,000 American troops into those mountains in a couple of days and had them strategically located so as to block every little goat trail out of Tora Bora, exactly how? We used the best option available to us at the time. As you may have noticed, we managed to overthrow the Taliban in a very short time with a minimum of American casualties using the tactics we used.
It is easy to be a Monday morning quarterback. Scheuer's job was to get bin Laden and he didn't do it. He has no standing to critique others, given his track record.
"CIA had knowledge that we could trust our Afghan allies only as far as we could throw them,"
This is not some top-secret information that the CIA had; this is common knowledge about the Afghan tribes and has been known in the West since at least the Afghan Wars with the British.
It is not as if there were a bunch of different options we had up in Tora Bora. There was no way that we would have been able to get thousands of US troops up into those mountains in short order in position to block any escape of small groups of militants moving by night on small trails.
This guy is just selling a book. We need to clean out the CIA and other government agencies of those left over when Bush came to office. They are doing us a disservice.
Nice use of selective quoting. What I said was, "The US must come down very hard on Israel and the Palestinians to create a workable peace" and I stand by that statement.
Of course they do not. Your assumption that all Muslims support these actions is part of the problem.
Sure, just staff them all with yes-men.
No....just a few good Republicans.
We have leverage with Israel, what leverage do we have with the Palestinians?
How exactly, would you come down very hard on them? Bomb them? Shoot them? Talk to them in an angry voice while wagging your finger in their face?
Get real.
What would you do to the Palestinians that we have not done over the last thirty years, during which time they have refused to make peace with Israel, even though Clinton and Barak offered them a state on a silver plate?
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