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2010-02-09 Terror Networks

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Posted by tipper 2010-02-09 08:02|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Dead terrorists do tell no tales and they are not particularly valuable for intelligence. Obama, if he can get off his self-righteous indignation pedestal, might re-visit Bushs' policies which were well thought out and legal. Such policies as: 1. Interrogation/debriefing approaches of high-value targets should be resurrected, 2. Non-law and order approach for terrorists, 3. Use of military tribunals for terrorists, and 4. Gitmo should continue to be used for detainees.

The kinder-and-gentler (speechify them to distraction) approach of the Obama administration isn't doing much to win the hearts and minds of our enemies and the respect of the Euro elite.

The MSM (and some Congressmen) aided and abetted the emasculation of the CIA. They, either through ideological blindness and stupidity or a malignant willingness, demonized and "Pallinized (a la K. Couric)" Bushs' policies at every turn even though it was harmful to the country. They willingly confused Abu Ghraib with CIA approaches despite it having nothing to do with the CIA. They condemned Gitmo before they visited it. When it was visited, the facility was found to be a well-run facility where terrorists are as well-treated as most of us--maybe better.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-02-09 08:42|| 2010-02-09 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 The MSM (and some Congressmen) aided and abetted the emasculation of the CIA.

Given that the upper echelon of the Agency participated in destabilizing their own government as long as Bush was President, it's Karma baby. To me this is just red on red.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-09 10:24|| 2010-02-09 10:24|| Front Page Top

#3 A good terrorist is a dead terrorist. The best terrorist is one that's good and dead.

Posted by mojo 2010-02-09 10:47|| 2010-02-09 10:47|| Front Page Top

#4 The article complains that we are killing bad guys in Pakistan from a distance, thus losing the benefit of their interrogations. But how, pray tell, are we to get men in to pick up these people, living as they are in the wilds of the tribal territories, surrounded and protected not only by their own people but by natives hostile both to the Pakistani forces and all other foreigners? "We own the night" is all very well, but not for repeated ventures through hundreds of miles of hostile territory to pick up a dozen bad guys each trip... especially as there's no way the Pakistani army -- and especially the ISI -- would keep the secret for long, let alone refrain from sabotaging the effort.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-09 13:29|| 2010-02-09 13:29|| Front Page Top

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