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The quotable quote about the "diversity quilt" obscures the deeper, darker truth about the CIA--which is that it HAS been doing its job; and doing it quite well. One simply has to understand the standards by which it is being judged--and who is judging it.

For some reason people refuse to grasp the fact that "their" government--that is the government which they fund at great expence--does not see itself as the defender of their homeland, their culture or, least of all, of their lives.

A globalist class runs the bureacracy and the bureacracy is loyal to itself exclusively. One need only read a bit about the French bureaucracy which survived every French convulsion before and after the ancien regime virtually intact; names changed but the bureacracy rolled on.

There are occasions when the globalist elite and its bureacracy pretend an affection for the American populace. And that is when these entities feel themselves physically threatened. Then, the all of the machinery of propaganda--which at any other time is used to inculcate self-loathing, community displacement, intellectual isolation and cultural homelessness (who is a "native American" by government standards--hmmmm?) in the majority of Americans--is marshalled to persuade citizens to DIE on behalf of a decaying concept; a concept that the elites loathe and work to undermine when they are feeling fit and frisky.

That the ruling class has been succesful in teaching majority Americans to hate themselves is all to evident in thread after thread on Free Republic where posters express satisfaction that their leaders have prepared them for bushels of body bags. There was a time in history when Americans proudly demanded proof from their representatives that the sacrifice of blood was necessary to defend THEIR interests.

Today, we are willingly going to war against an "enemy" and there has been no proof offered that THAT "enemy" commited the act of war.

Still less is anybody asking how it came to pass that America has a planet-load of enemies. The sickening pabulum that "they hate us because we are free" is so outrageous, so banal so easily shown to be false, that I can only conclude that the multi-cultural teachings of the past 30 years have instilled a death wish in the majority of Americans.

Reading the absolute joy with which people are greeting the Presidential announcement of permanent war ("be patient everybody") against terrorism; of a further engorgement of the police powers of the State in the name of "homeland security", of the inevitable body bags without even paying lip service to a declaration of war (war against whom? Nobody cares--to kill the unknown Other and to die is the thing) is the saddest thing in the world. The little foxes have won.

Perhaps a head or two will roll at the CIA. But it will not be displayed on the battlements at dawn. Such populist savagery will not be tolerated. And besides it might give the less "well-educated" among them ideas. It will tumble into some lucrative coporate basket and live out its life in extreme comfort while Americans wave their little plastic flags made in China and bury more of the dead.

The CIA is doing just what it is supposed to do, in spite of this quaint, populist squawk by the "Washington Times". And it will continue to be funded in secret--funded much, much more lavishly in the wake of this catastrophe--because the American People will insist upon it. That says everything....

Still less is anybody asking how it came to pass that America has a planet-load of enemies. The sickening pabulum that "they hate us because we are free" is so outrageous, so banal so easily shown to be false, that I can only conclude that the multi-cultural teachings of the past 30 years have instilled a death wish in the majority of Americans.

It's OK to write headlines about "Islamic terror" or my favourite French example "God's madmen", but it's definitely out of bounds to ask why the United States is loathed by so many Arab Muslims in the Middle East. We can give the murderers a Muslim identity: we can finger the Middle East for the crime – but we may not suggest any reasons for the crime.
--Robert Fisk: How can the US bomb this tragic people? 23 September 2001

Why are you so eager to declare defeat? When did the forces of bureaucracy, internationalism, and corporatism come to so dominate the West that you feel we can no longer overthrow them?

It has always been like this. Do you think that in the days following the Revolution there were not Internationlists who saw America as merely a staging ground for attacks against "kings and clerics?" The tension between your virtuous republicans and the internationalist class has always been there, BelleDame. My heart is with the former, but when the entire civilization that the two sides have constructed is under assault from the outside, does it not make sense to postpone the internecine warfare?