Former CIA agent: "We do not face a global jihadist 'movement'"

Jihad Watch ^ | 14 July 2008 | LTC Joseph Myers

[GOPJ]

Unfortunately the man who thinks he can “see” doesn’t see the underlying reality of energy waves and molecules that make up the true reality of what we call “elephant”. And so, the gist of the fable is that some might know more than others, but true understanding is an illusion.

[Bryan24]

We do not face a global jihadist "movement" but a series of disparate ethnic and religious conflicts involving Muslim populations, each of which remains fundamentally regional in nature and almost all of which long predate the existence of al-Qaeda.

Hmm, a religious conflict in Iran, perhaps?

A stray suicide bomber mistaking this for another ethnicity's tent?

Why do I get the feeling we would be better off if we just fired everyone in the CIA and started over?

[bvw]

Solomon said something like that. Vanity, all.

I'll go out on a limb -- Truth is a illusion with a purpose. It is that purpose which is real. Moreover, for us, truth is all we have to work with, and for that we'd best stick with truth, because it is the only path to our purpose.

[GOPJ]

You’re right - the purpose can be real...

[N. Theknow]

Well, I feel safer already.

Me too.

Care to join me for lunch at Windows on the World restaurant?

It's on top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York.