A-Haunting We Will Go
Bill Gertz cites unnamed US intelligence officials as saying the ‘spooks were in revolt’ over an administration attempt to cover up the extent Iranian influence among jihadi groups in North Africa.
Weeks before the presidential election, President Barack Obama’s administration faces mounting opposition from within the ranks of U.S. intelligence agencies over what career officers say is a “cover up” of intelligence information about terrorism in North Africa.
Intelligence held back from senior officials and the public includes numerous classified reports revealing clear Iranian support for jihadists throughout the tumultuous North Africa and Middle East region, as well as notably widespread al Qaeda penetration into Egypt and Libya in the months before the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
Belmont Club readers will probably remember the post Sleight of Hand on Sept 29 in which I argued that the attack on the Benghazi consulate resembled a counter-intelligence operation much more than a mob action against an American installation.
One of the reasons why the administration clung to the story that an anti-Muslim video sparked the attack for so long was because it could not admit to itself the more catastrophic alternative: that the attacks on the embassies were part of a big counterintelligence operation against the US. James Clapper apparently came to the reluctant conclusion some hours after the attack that it was his bailiwick not Hillary’s which was in the crosshairs….
If Benghazi were an offensive counerintelligence operation then Clapper’s admission is is a half-truth at best. The organizations which mastermind such things are other intelligence agencies, only a handful of which would have been capable of carrying out something on this scale. Neither the rag-tag militias nor the remnants of al-Qaeda would have been able to do it. But some Arab intelligence agencies, or Iran’s or the ISI — might. If so then the attack may not have been masterminded by “al-Qaeda”, but it was for the benefit of al-Qaeda.
Bill Gertz continues the report in a vein eerily similar to that Belmont Club post. I wrote then that “The whole thrust of what Roger L. Simon has called “Benghazigate” — an organized pattern of lying to lay the blame on the wave of attacks on an unknown video producer has been designed to avoid answering two questions: 1) who masterminded the attacks; 2) what help did they have from persons inside the United States.”
Bill Gertz has tentative answers to both questions. As to 1) Iran and Egypt; and to 2) the Administration itself in the subsequent coverup. He writes
Officials with access to intelligence reports, based on both technical spying and human agents, said specific reporting revealed an alarming surge in clandestine al Qaeda activity months before the attack in Benghazi.
Yet the Obama administration sought to keep the information from becoming public to avoid exposing what the officials say is a Middle East policy failure by Obama.
Officials said that the administration appeared to engage in a disinformation campaign aimed at distancing the president personally during the peak of the presidential election campaign from the disaster in Benghazi, where numerous warning of an attack were ignored, resulting in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other officials. …
The final element of the campaign involved comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was the first to give a partial explanation of the intelligence when she said al Qaeda terrorists operating from Mali were possible culprits in the Benghazi attack.
“What she failed to mention was the cooperation of Iran and Egypt in supporting jihadists in Libya,” the official said, who added the events would be investigated in an apparent effort to stave off internal critics in government.
That has led to delays in getting FBI and other U.S. investigators into Benghazi, raising concerns that some in the White House wanted to delay the FBI’s efforts to uncover evidence about the attack.
Probably the most explosive section of Bill Gertz’s report is this:
The administration, in particular, wants to keep hidden solid intelligence showing that the terrorist group behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans is now flourishing under the Muslim Brotherhood regime of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
Egypt was among the locations of Obama’s 2009 so-called “apology” tour, when the president criticized past U.S. policies based on what he said was “fear and anger” that prompted actions “contrary to our ideals.” He also promised “a new beginning” for the U.S. and the world’s Muslims and a radical shift in U.S. policy.
In other words Obama in his vanity handed over America’s one of America’s most important allies in the Middle East to its most deadly enemies. Osama is dead! Al-Qaeda is very much alive.
Gertz’s reports do not yet rise to the level of highly probable fact. But they do rise to the level of “let’s look under this rock”. If even half of what Gertz suggests is true — and in his defense I anticipated most of it — then the Obama administration has been either been out to lunch or in cahoots. If this bombshell is true the unnamed “career officers” are effectively in a position to scuttle Barack Obama’s presidency. The question is: will the NYT print it?
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“…in his vanity..” i.e. intentionally?
Of course the NY Slimes won’t print anything like this — not without a whole lot of redaction.
There is a part of the puzzle that does not fit with the idea of a well-coordinated action. Clearly, 0Bumbler is the jihadist’s dream US President. He will not only fail to react to attacks, he will end up apologizing to the attacker & sending him lots of money.
So why would any intelligent opponent do anything in Libya on 9/11/2012 that might hurt the chances of their Dream President being re-elected?
You know what they say about never believing the first report, especially when it confirms what you’ve been thinking. I think Bill Gertz is onto something but because of the collateral and not entirely on the strength of his article itself.
So we’re getting a return on something in the murk. What is is, whether it is the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, a Megalodon or maybe just a school of minnows, we don’t as yet know.
Too early to be sure of anything.
The proper procedure is to actively ping it. The way forward is probably through an official or quasi official investigation, such as through the House or something like it. But with five weeks to go, I wonder if anything will come of it.
Who knows?
Paired with Rep. Bachmann’s accusations and the furious denouncements of same from both sides of the aisle, this whole thing stinks real bad.
Maybe the NY Times can report in the same section that they report other Top Secret information such as upcoming military raids, names of intelligence sources across the world, etc… Perhaps a new twist on the arcane section previously known as Classifieds.
If Spengler is correct about Egypt’s funding deficit, who is going to pay for feeding all of the Egyptian mouths? Seems like the usuals suspects like Hugo and Dinner Jacket are predisposed. Perhaps the Saudis may actually have to show their hand here? We must surely not allow a dime to get to them via the IMF.
“Three Days of the Condor” is a pretty good movie, but for real 1970′s political paranoia I like “Parallax View”. I particularly like the scene where they have a real psychopathic murderer take the Parallax “test”.
If the C.I.A. did manage to kill obama’s election chances, it would be enough for me to forgive them for all their previous intelligence failures.
It seems that the U.S. intelligence apparatus is deliberately being twisted into knots from the inside for the benefit of the Islamists. Sounds crazy, I know, but the many scattered pieces of the puzzle fit too neatly together to suggest a coincidence of random events.
This is the official attribution for the frequent murders of U.S. and NATO servicemen by Afghans:
“I suppose what happened in that process, we perhaps overlooked some of the crucial screening requirements, and as a result the enemy used that as an opportunity to infiltrate,” Ludin said. He added that the number of Afghan soldiers being killed by a fellow Afghan was “far higher” than the instances of “green on blue” attacks… Jihad Watch
Even a lazy, mediocre person does not “overlook” crucial requirements when the lives of your countrymen depend on it, unless the system has been rigged to make it so.
The Obama Administration is way too cozy with the Muslim Brotherhood to think that things are going to get any better anytime soon. What kind of idiot sends $450 million to the enemy? This stink is not going away on its own.
Back in the 1980′s the Left would say of Reagan that “he makes us comfortable with our prejudices.” I’ll update it and say Obama makes them comfortable in their feathered nests. So please don’t shake the trees.
Why send half a billion dollars to the enemy? Well the other idea I had right after the embassy attacks was in a post called Precursor. This was on Sept 12, right after the attack. I saw even then that it was an organized attack and wondered if it was also a “precusor”.
In other words is this is part of a combination of punches? If so the haymaker is still to come, just like Sept 11, 2001. What is the haymaker? And if the administration doesn’t want to see it coming because it will damage the precious re-election bid of the President then how can we dodge it?
I think the payoff to the MB is in the hope that we can purchase peace. Or delay things until after the November elections. Personally, I’m not sure that’s going to work and even worse if it does. In fact it may turn out to be just like Fast and Furious. We may wind up shot up by our own guns.
0bama is in a very tough spot, the Benghazi attack was well coordinate operation, 0bama and Hildabeast Do Not want to know where this rabbit goes and they knew they didn’t want to know just hours into the incident, that is why FBI was kept out, I am having doubts the real Intel on this will make the light of day (if ever) in time to do anything to 0bama, if Panetta had any honor left in him he would speak up, I am not counting on it. I think it would really behoove Israel Intel to throw what they know out thru their leaks, from the sounds of things the tempo is gonna pick up a lot, if more facts aren’t out in the next 10 days it’s over, of course it’s unlikely we will know after the 10 days if it was true or not. Romney still has a chance to win but ya know it is going to get really nasty from now till Nov 6th.
Haymaker=Dec 21 2012??? Maybe them aztec knew something, maybe they be a day off, it has been a couple hundred years since they wrote it down…
I hope they’re wrong!
If the US doesnt fund Egypt, the only available sources are Russia, Saudi and China. And Russia doesnt like the islams. China’s got its own problems. The Iranian rial(?) is in free fall, so dinnerjack is no help. Big place, no food, not pretty.
inshallah
Here are some things we know for sure so far…
The trailer for the film on which the attacks were blamed was obviously mere pretext for terrorist assaults on the US across Islam.
Very recently the film was dubbed into Arabic by someone.
Two days before the anniversary of 9/11, on 9/09/2012, MB controlled television aired the trailer to a national Egyptian audience.
Two days later, the assaults commenced.
Instantly, the ID of the filmmaker was revealed, we were told he is a Coptic Christian, and he said that the trailer was for a film which was the result of contributions by “100 wealthy Jewish contribuotrs”, a story which seemed tailor made to inflame psychopathic Jew-hating, America-hating, Christian-hating Muslims across the globe.
Blaming the film served both the Obama administration and the MB in multiple ways.
Obama was instantly disposed to run with the narrative that a film had caused the assaults on US embassies across Dar ul Islam, even taking this ludicrous claim to the UN where he promised that “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”, a sentiment eerily identical to the attitudes of Muslim fascists across the planet.
In the ensuing month America has been ousted from Libya due to “security concerns”, and probably out of other Islamic redoubts as well.
Hillary almost immediately offered $500,000,000 to the same Egyptians who created the pretext for Muslims across the world to oust America from their dominions.
It’s well to wonder about precursors to more and worse, but aren’t the things above heinous enough? It appears that newly minted Jihadi nation of Egypt pulled our leash, and we became their dog.
So. Its October. Surprises (for some) thus far:
1. The Raaaaacist meme seems to have hit 0 harder than R.
2. MENA is offering up some surprises of its own; but you can bet it is not under 0 and HRC’s control…they can’t even play checkers, much less chess.
3. Where is Whiskey when you need him? (How long is he in the penalty box?) His comments re: feminization of the government look better today than a few years ago. Hillary, Powers, Rice, Michelle, Jarrett, Sabellius etc.
Crusty Curmudgeon mode off.
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Obama has achieved the Pookistanification of Egypt. We are now paying them to be our enemy.
This ‘wheels within wheels’ scheme is a Persian template.
Iran is the premier assaulter of diplomatic norms.
The MB connection is a false flag gambit — again — the ONLY way the Iranians play.
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The power relationship is such that devious cut-outs are an absolute requirement for Tehran.
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The REAL debacle is the loss of our diplomatic cyphers.
Naturally, such a fiasco is not mentioned in public.
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EVERY diplomatic outpost has to have encryption/ decryption machines — and our facility was stripped bare.
The speed of the attack would’ve permitted the ‘vault’ to be penetrated — probably with insider assistance — which would explain the second phase debacle when the Ambassador was captured.
Such a prisoner would provide a second route to penetrate the cypher vault.
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Iran’s motivations are atomic and economic.
Tehran is ‘all in’ as a gambler would say.
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BTW…
What’s with the IRGC general at the microphone detailing Iranian all out retaliation against America if Israel thwarts their final steps to the atomic bomb?
The last crew to march down that road were the Axis Partners.
One wonders where GEN Petraeus is in all this nonsense. He has been the most effective anti-jihadi leader and is in charge of CIA.
The subversion of America’s power is proceeding well.
A truly professional (like in “professional revolutionary”, see Lenin) job.
Just in the face of everybody.
And everybody – except a few crazies like us – shuts up and they all let the muslim brotherhood conquer North Africa, Iran get the bomb, the Christians being prosecuted everywhere.
Intelligence ? Army ? Navy ? … Anyone ?
The little stalin comes in and everybody shuts up.
You don’t want to lose your pension , do you ?
I find it fortunate that the next couple of debates will focus on foreign policy (the last one exclusively).
If you think O looked bad in the first debate, wait until he tries to explain why everything currently going on in the Middle East is actually good for America, and an example of “smart diplomacy”.
Let’s hope Romney brings up some of the points outlined at Belmont.
I wouldn’t be too hard on them. Look at what happened to the guys who blew the whistle on Fast and Furious. Consider the fate of the Pakistani doctor who worked with the US on finding Bin Laden. Think about where the Libyans who helped the US are now.
They are all every one of them behind the 8-ball.
When I was discussing the morality of torture I remember writing, “if you want to be moral be willing to pay the price.” Want to ask the queston, run the risk. Want to speak the truth, run the risk. Feel like defending your manhood? Run the risk. Spin the wheel. Take the chance.
Neither morality nor heroism is free. It comes at a considerable cost. And come right down to it, nobody wants to get the grief for nothing. If you would encourage a man to be brave, give him some hope he may make it out alive. Who’s going to blow the whistle on the little Stalin? How did the movie put it?
The process of finding out that you are not alone is called a Preference Cascade. That is what politics owes men who speak the truth. Only when wider society gives dissenters some assurance of a fate other than destruction will you see people risk it.
Great Read!It’s quite obvious, to most, that the New Treason Times will only report, that which hurts America! Since, in this case, it will likely also hurt the Messiah’s chances for re-election, it’s not very likely to show up, unless it’s somehow turned around to say Obama had no way of knowing, due to Rogue Operatives or some other nonsense! The Obama Enemy media is a traitorous bunch and should be dealt with in a most aggressive manner, in order to keep under control. Newt has shown the way and here’s a slightly more aggressive concept for taking on the Obama Enemy media: http://paratisiusa.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-those-who-should-know.html?spref=tw
Please follow up on this, Richard! It’s an interesting story!
God Bless America!
Wretchard,
The delegitimization of the U.S. Federal Government is far advanced. If Obama’s intention was to kill American patriotism, he’s done a damned good job. I can’t imagine that most of our military feels anything for him and his accomplices but bitter contempt at best. If Obama steals a second term, look for the John Galt meme to explode as more and more people refuse to cooperate or do anything they can avoid which aids the Federal Government.
OT but worth a peek
the empty chair is but a symbol
(re Drudge)
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/121015_2012_p465.jpg
regards
SF
So which is it?
1. The Obama Admin ignored warnings and let our embassies be attacked under a belief that they had kissed up to the MB and others in the ME well enough that, “They’ll never hurt us; they’re our friends!”
2. The Obama Admin did not act on the warnings for fear of revealing that the entire premise of their ME policy, “They’ll never hurt us; they’re our friends! And besides, Obama gave that speech in Cairo and that wowed them!” is an utter failure.
It has to be one of these. Which is worse? Dumb or dumber?
And as for any intelligence value of what was gained in the attacks, who would it benefit the most? The answer appears to be the new government of Egypt, even more so than the Iranians. The MB seems to be much less powerful in Libya than in Egypt; no doubt they wish to rectify that. Taking out and/or capturing our intelligence assets there would seem to be a logical act.
Probably the Egypt co-sponsorship makes sense because China is the backer – just as in the case of Pakistan. Instead of the overt nuclear umbrella, China – and behind them the SCO – deploys the economic strategic weapon. They say to Egypt: we support your revolution, Muslim Brotherhood. it is your revolution, but we will help. You will succor al Qaeda and we will make our relations known, but you will orchestrate the attacks against the Americans in the region and they will be made to feel that their precious Egypt-Israel peace is too dear to sacrifice to a China, who can easily make up the loss of your $2B a year from the Great Satan/Foreign Devils. In the meantime, Turkey will move against Syria, and replace overt Russian sponsorship there with covert alliance of Russia-Turkey-Iran, under overt Turkish domination, under the guise of humanitarian intervention. The American electorate will have no idea what’s going on, because enough of them have been convinced to obey what the Useful Idiot in Chief says.
p @ 18: One wonders where GEN Petraeus is in all this nonsense
Zooming past your delicate sarcasm – not really, one must assume he’s right at the bottom and is pretty much who the spooks are revolting from, on, against. Him and of coarse Ms. Pantsuit.
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EVERYWHERE IN SPACE-TIME SIMULTANEOUSLY—Attempting to appeal to the widest possible demographic base as Election Day draws near, President Obama made a surprise campaign stop Monday to visit an infinite series of alternate universes that vibrate on a hyperdimensional plane different from the three spatial dimensions observable in our own universe.
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-makes-surprise-visit-to-quantumbranching-mul,29763/
They are implacable and cunning, and as such we can count on their being wherever in the world we are vulnerable, doing their deadly, asymmetric best. There should we be, preventing it if possible, but always retaliating disproportionately if there is a hint of their involvement. It’s been 33 years since the humiliation of the embassy takeover. The Marine barracks in Lebanon. … Robert Dean Stethem, beaten and shot and kicked to a tarmac in Beirut. … Kobar Towers. … We would be way beyond forbearance and “trying to support pro-Western elements” in Iranian governing circles by now, if it were not for the naifs and foreign policy “realists” among us, between which there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference, insofar as end results. Kill the regime; kill as many of its foot soldiers as possible. Let’s find out if the Iranian people really wish to be our friends, or at least not our adversaries.
I have been told by an old shaman that the Aztecs didn’t plan ahead very well and since they were working with a round stone tablet, they just ran out of room at the top of the calender leaving the next several entries to be continued at some future date. Sounds like our current “elites”, eh?
A case can be made that 0bama is trying of course without showing it, to make the Euro-colonist and Christian America holdings or Control collapse in the Middle East, I don’t think 0bama cares a wit what Putin (Russia) does, same with China, it seems 0bama is letting us get kicked out of there (Asian theater) too, it seems that 0bama isn’t giving up on Africa or what you would call it south of the great desert barrier, 0bama is trying to create his mentors (Frank Marshall) communist America, if 0bama gets that second term we will see these things accelerate, America will be forced out of the ME, Possibly Pacific Asia and the irreversible changes to our country. I still think 0bama will get his “Historical” third term, he is after all “The Smartest Man” to have become President and its owed him, remember he is “Black”!
Pushing Americans to die for Israel in the Muslim world.
Rants about religion (Christianity) should be in the town square influencing political views. He seems to forget that the rest are all paying taxes. If they want such an involvement with in the government, then they need to give up the tax exemptions that amounts to billions of tax free properties.
They take more and more property off the tax rolls, invest money given for benefit of the community with Wall Street, War equipment and attack on other faiths.
Already, the Talmudic Jew, Michael Chertoff, the head of the DHS, has made a secret deal with Israel disguised as the “Maryland/Israel Homeland Security Partnership” which will be used against Americans who are sick & tired of the Jewish cabal here in America. Largest problem in America today is the religious involvement of Israel and their faith. We need to keep, or go back to, separation of Church & State.
Any politically-aware person will tell you that US President Barack Obama is totally defeated and humiliated by the Zionist-regime and its supporters in the Congress, Senate, Wall Street and Zionist-controlled mainstream media in almost every field especially in Washington’s dealing with the Muslim world. One just have to study the pro-Israel, anti-Muslim 1500-page manifesto of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik to find out how Israel-Firsters are pushing Americans to die for Israel in the Muslim world.
Posted by: Ron Wal
Just a matter of time.
Occupiers of Washington, DC
It’s just a matter of time before U.S. tires of Israel & the atrocities they commit.
Americans are sick & tired of the acts of war by Israel that are covered up by their crime partners (Occupiers of Washington, DC).
Republican Leaders Are Afraid of Rush Limbaugh. He is the prime example of the Republican parties base and is the most listened to party leader. Regardless of how radical his views are, his messages are carried right up to the pulpits of the Right Wingers.
Will they send our sons & daughters into another false flag war to die for Israel’s benefit. Another preemptive WAR will further distroy America as we have known it.
Israel has been the victimizer not the victim for the last 64 years.
Organized Crime, and organized religion has become one in the same in that time line.
Get rid of the duel citizenship people in government or agencies paid by tax payers.
We need an audit of the Fed. and religious institutions. Intent of tax payers, and congregations giving money and what it is used for.
Posted by: Ron Wal
walk towards the light.
31. Ronald L. Waldron
Ron, you ought to go to your nearest Appleseed in the very near future.
Get rid of all that excess tension; connect you with your heritage.
RWE @ 25
Consider a third alternative. President Obama ignored the popular uprising in Iran in hopes of some deal with Aminejad (sp?), to get “peace in our time”.
The propaganda ground was being prepared for re-approachment with Bashir al Asaad (even after his goverment assasinated the Lebaneses PM and conspired to kill our troops in Iraq) so the we could get “peace in our time”.
So it is no stretch that Obama and Hillary! tolerated what happened in Egypt under the observation of Morsi and also promised them more money ($500 milion is just a down payment) to get “peace in our time”.
They have real intelligence people telling them what really happened, but they will not accept that because it will interfer with the preferred narrative of their plans for a “comprehensive” peace in the Middle East.
Like other historical appeasers, by refusing to stand for any principle except that of trying to appease to get what they want, they instead get what they profess to abhor.
More violence, more death, and farther from peaceful coexistence than ever. Whatever peaceful coexistence actually is, with either the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood and their political party moving to control Egypt, al Qaeda, or Baathist Syria.
But American ‘imperialism’ is so icky, that our President will never try to look out for actual self – interests as a nation.
Pax Americana is over. Get ready for the next stage of a world on fire. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Recent Events. Obama-aka-Neville Chamberlain appeases Islamo-fascists/MB. Islamo-fascists/MB want to have their cake and eat it too. Islamo-fascists/MB want to kick the corpse and drag it in the streets. O-”Neville” has no problem sacrificing “Freedom of Speech” and cherished US values for happy talk with the Islamo-fascists/MB.
In Bengladesh, 9 Buddhists temples burned to the ground by mobs of the Religion of Peace, same pretext as Benghazi attack (youtube movie). Buddhists are shocked everywhere, and in Ceylon, where they are the majority, are starting to wonder if it’s wise to be non-violent. MSM studiously leaves out the Buddhist story.
31. Ronald L. Waldron
The Jews made Obama lose the first debate? Are you saying it wasn’t Romney’s handkerchief after all?
On the way to Daily Kos, I think someone made the wrong turn at Albuquerque. The Damn Jooooooooooooooooooooooos made him do it!
31,
Desmond Tutu is that you or Reverend Farrakhan? Man the Belmont Club sure draws the A-list.
Seriously PJM may want to do an IP trace to discover where that comes from. Was it just a lone wacko, or from DNC HQ or LGF? There are mobys out there seeking to start fires they can then point at.
One way to bring down the legitimate government is to convince its population it cannot be trusted. We are far advanced along that path.
I find myself continually mistified by antisemitism. I just don’t understand it at all. Never did. What is it about Jews that gets everybody so worked up? They’ve always repaid me in kind with the treatment I’ve given them, just like any other group of people. Welcome them, and be welcomed. Shun them, and be shunned. Human nature, that’s all.
As a friend who converted to Catholic once said, “The way it seems to me, we are the Reform Jews.”
Meanwhile it seems everyone associated with Obama is turning out to be incompetent, corrupt, and too stupid to steal. Apparently they didn’t have courses on that at Yale and Harvard.
40. C -
Someone here recommended The Pink Swastika a couple of threads back. I will second that. It’s well worth reading, and posits an explanation for anti-semitism that makes a great deal of sense. It’s rather depressing, as are all histories of depravity, but again, evil must be known before it can be defeated.
http://tinyurl.com/ydnsj86
35. Claus E. Witz: “Buddhists are shocked everywhere, and in Ceylon, where they are the majority, are starting to wonder if it’s wise to be non-violent. MSM studiously leaves out the Buddhist story.”
They won’t be victims long. Heritage or some such group will call Buddhism a threat, the American Thai embassy will be overrun, their king turned lunatic. (He already feigns some peculiar injustices.) They will write stories about Buddhist bombings, gang rapes, communist ties to China. A whole cast of characters will be generated in the name of HUMINT… Oh, my poor people!!
“If this bombshell is true the unnamed “career officers” are effectively in a position to scuttle Barack Obama’s presidency.” That was true once upon a time, but bombshells do not penetrate dumbbells. At all.
Everybody associated with Obama is a member of a clique. Karl Marx’s genius was not his profound, scientific mapping of the Sea of Social Justice. Rather, his genius was exploiting elite sensibilities in a giant con game. It is incredible that his fraud hasn’t been sniffed out broadly by this late date. Look at how he set elites down such a disastrous path, all the while cloaking their subterfuge as a heroic and moral action. How has the lesson of his con not been learned? How much blood must be shed?
But, here we are. Somehow the useful idiots have gotten hold of the controls, without a clue that the whole construct is a ruse. They believe all that shit. Obama came out yesterday in force proclaiming that the Romney we all saw kicking his ass in the debates was not the real Romney. They actually seemed to have believed that the real Romney was the one they were selling, so are suffering cognitive dissonance when the real article showed up and did not behave as expected.
Because they believe all that shit. Obama’s most forceful appeal at the moment is when he asks his followers to continue believing in him, because he’s continuing to believe in them. What a circle jerk, devoid any meaningful feedback loop, such as measures of performance. Reality dictates that when you’re practically four years into a project and the vendor hasn’t met deliverables you fire his butt. But Obama voters are a breed apart, who insist on believing all that shit.
Why do they continue to believe in what is, in reality, shit? I suspect it is because, disappointingly, that shit is what the cool kids believe in. Marxists are, at their core, aristocrats. Always have been. Orwell tried to tell us. AND, even he still bowed to them.
That’s the problem. People really want to believe in the trendy shit.
Richard, you have answered two of the three questions well. To paraphrase John Kerry “Ask al-Qaeda if they are better off four years a ago then they are to day.” I would have to answer they are better off today.
#3. Will the NTY report it? No. They may spin it but they won’t report it.
0bama’s MSM cronies have too much at stake. Why in the world would NYT report something unfavorable for 0bama? The NYT is an arm of the 0bama reelection campaign.
On the intelligence subject, the some times correct Debka site, is reporting a huge intelligence victory.
“…intelligence sources disclose that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s personal cameraman, Hassan Golkhanban, who defected from his UN entourage in New York on Oct. 1, brought with him an intelligence treasure trove of up-to-date photographs and videos of top Iranian leaders visiting their most sensitive and secret nuclear and missile sites…”
http://www.debka.com/article/22412/Defecting-Iranian-cameraman-brings-CIA-priceless-film-of-secret-nuclear-sites-
I am wondering if there is any truth to this story. I am also wondering if this means that Iran is farther ahead in the construction of a nuclear bomb than those previous reports.
I note, with sadness, that I understand how hard it is to depart with a dream or a hope that you’ve invested in. It stings.
Of all people, Bob Wills wrote the swangsong for kissing dreams goodbye (and the song became a basis for an opera, surprise).
Here’s a suitably humble version of it:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=going+away+party+bob+wills&view=detail&mid=CDA356FE1F7260029294CDA356FE1F7260029294&first=0
And no, that’s not me performing that. That’s Josh (wink)
I am with blert way back at #17 I consider Iran the primary Command, Control,
Communication and Intelligence (C3 plus I) behind the recent upsurge in terrorist activity.
Russia and China can and probably do play supporting roles but are not prime suspects in this regard.
The mideast is divided between Arabia and Persian. G W Bush and the invasion of Iraq effectively dismantled Arabian capabilities after General Petraeus solved the occupation problem.
This leaves the Persian element as the vacuum filler. Act Meany the Whack Job and the Mad Mullahs operate in ways that go way, way back in time. The ancient Persians often forced their targets to capitulate by utilizing locals and irregular warfare tactics. They seldom had to send in their regulars save as mopping-up troops. (The Greeks were the noticeable exception as targets went) So today, Iran seeks to fund, control and sponsor a hodgepodge of terrorists in order to reconstruct their empire of yesteryear.
The problem with that is that it could result in Iran itself getting invaded and conquered. Solution: Get a whole bunch of nukes at your disposal that can be used against any would-be invaders’ homeland. Don’t have to be very accurate nukes, just enough to slaughter a bunch of civilians will suffice to keep invaders at bay.
In turn, the fly in that ointment is that any continuing resistance to their aims throws a monkey-wrench into their carefully contrived machinery. They now have to do one of two things: (a) clean up their act in a big hurry thereby destroying their personal political careers and eliminating their claim to theological superiority or (b) uncork the nukes so as to effect the Islamic gotterdamerung.
On our domestic front we got three problems: those that are oblivious, often deliberately so, those who think they can save themselves by abandoning Israel, and those who like the idea of our own subjugation—-TWANLOCs as Subotai so aptly described them. All three groups are determined to continue the current POTUS at all costs.
Interesting times, ain’t they? I dunno about you, but I shall pray for some Divine Guidance. That sure can’t hurty anything.
Yes of course people want to believe. It is not true, not true at all that religion is on the decline. On the contrary the world fought the biggest religious war in history just 70 years ago. On the one side were the advocates of paradise on earth. On the other side were the other advocates of paradise on earth.
It’s just the names that change. Infant sacrifice, hagiography, mythmaking, indulgences, simony, a system of clergy. They’re all still with us. Every last one of them, just renamed is all. Humanity in its cleverness thinks it no longer needs to believe in Moses and Jesus. Sure. Instead we worship at the feet of Lenin, Mao, Che Guevara, Kim Il Sung, Xenu and Gaia. And oh yes, Allah.
How clever we have become. Sundays I see people who are too smart to listen to the Sermon on the Mount meticulously sorting their trash cans to put all the recyclables in their different, specialized containers. It probably doesn’t make much sense to recycle some of those items, but Green was never about energy; it is about feeling good. So they worship at the new altar of man, the trashcan and wave around their prayer-book, the carbon credit.
There’s no help for it. Humanity is hard-wired that way. Religion is the biggest business on earth. Ask the Commies. Ask the Liberals. Ask the guys peddling carbon credits. Or pushing abortion clinics, heck they’ve even got a ship off Morocco. Greenpeace has a fricken navy. Holy Toledo, do they do a land office business. Corporations have to reinvent themselves every decade or so. But religions never go out of business.
And none of them see what they’re doing. And never will. Hence, I’ve come to the reluctant conclusion that it is far better, even if you were an atheist, to believe in Jesus, Moses or the Buddha if only to fill that religious space in your heart from the intrusions of the Solar Temple, Aum Shin Rikyu, al-Qaeda or the Global Warmists. Believe in the Ten Commandments, even if you don’t want to believe it because its safer that way; and anyway they make a heck of a lot more sense than the Commandments peddled by iron Feliks or the fat men of North Korea.
Plus, there’s at least some chance God as described by Moses and as revealed by Jesus actually exists. There’s really nothing in the bottom of that garbage can.
Some interesting ideas on this thread — anti-semitic rants excepted, of course. But no-one has presented a coherent explanation of what is in any of this for the Other Side.
Look at this from the perspective of the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, Russia, China, whoever — What did the Other Side gain by attacking the Benghazi consultate 2 months before an election which might (just might) remove the weakest, most manipulatible US President they could ever hope for?
I submit the only logical explanation is that no-one is in control. Not on the West’s side, obviously; but not on the Other Side either (whoever they are). Instead, we are at the stage of “Events, dear boy. Events!”
The world today is like a critical mass of uranium just before it blows. A number of insignificant little neutrons are streaming around. Eventually, one of those little neutrons will happen to slip into a nucleus, and the chain reaction will start. Interesting times, indeed!
“‘I am nursing a viper in Rome’s bosom,’ Emperor Tiberius once said of the young Caligula. ‘I am educating a Phaethon who will mishandle the fiery sun-chariot and scorch the whole world.’”
From Robert Graves’ translation of Suetonius’ Life of Caligula.
kinuachdrach…
Get smart: this is a battle between chaos and control.
It is the ‘twelvers’ of Tehran that embrace their inner chaos — and sacking embassies is their specialty.
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Ops of this kind are NEVER ‘alliance’ propositions… EVER.
NO WAY did the IRGC /al Quds command leak their deep scheme to any infidels — such as Red China or Putin & Co.
That Tehran intends to retail their booty ( to the SCO ) — now obtained — is a forgone conclusion. But they’re absolutely not ‘in’ on the op.
The chaotic crew in Cairo couldn’t possibly scheme this up.
For starters: they’re still gaining their footing — putting their players into position.
Further, they want Libya to calm down — at least to the point of kicking some crude oil eastward, for the Egyptian situation is dire.
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As for Iran: her currency is collapsing — taking that economy with it.
The prospect of ENHANCED Libyan exports — is a dagger at the throat of Tehran.
The Wan has wound the detonator coil tight.
He’s placed our 5th Fleet forward out there as ducks in a row — carny style.
He’s taken non-atomic Israeli options mostly off the board. Only a one-punch gambit is now viable.
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And in other cheery news, the Red Chinese economic juggernaut has fallen off the rails — Bridge Over the River Kwai style.
Shoddy construction has led to MAJOR railway and roadway spans dropping away.
Tsunamis, bad weather and earthquakes not required.
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W…
Take a gander at California gasoline prices. They’re enough the throw California in chaos all by themselves.
We’re in crisis, yet Jerry Brown has not seen fit to declare an emergency.
We may have to walk to the polls.
Blert @ 52″ “… this is a battle between chaos and control.”
Sounds like we are in violent agreement, Blert. There is no plan, on any side. Just a lot of little people, pursuing their narrow interests — whether that is holding on to the keys of Air Force One or maintaining the fiction of the EU or looting what is left of the Egyptian treasury.
The battle between chaos and control was lost some time ago, while no-one was looking. What we see now is the aftermath of victory by chaos.
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Meanwhile, to add to Blert’s sad catalog, there are reports that Afghans are the latest group to start investing in real estate in Dubai. By some estimates, the Afghan elite has been pulling around $8 Billion per year out of the country and buying up villas in Dubai. Same order of magnitude as all the Western aid going to Afghanistan.
Oh well! The West borrowed all the money we gave to Afghanistan from the Chinese anyway. Chaos!
K@50 asks:
What did the Other Side gain by attacking the Benghazi consultate 2 months before an election which might (just might) remove the weakest, most manipulatible US President they could ever hope for?
My conclusion is the attack had little to do with Amb. Stevens, or the video. It must have been targeting the ex-SEAL contractors who were tasked with finding the MANPADs missing from the Syrian armories. Perhaps as many as 1,000 Stinger-like missiles, now in the hands of the MB, AlQ and other anti-Western forces.
What was Stevens doing over there in enemy territory anyway, in the dead of night? Maybe collecting the intel to forward home?
Otherwise this highly co-ordinated attack makes no sense.
#31, your kind has Murdered more than all other religions save one, Islam! Go back to your hole, I do not care to hear your false, twisted and deranged thoughts! Christianity is the only religion that peacefully changed the superpower of its day without killing to get there, brought the enslaved man out of the hopelessness he was stuck in, Christianity is the religion that put mans foot on the Moon! There is no other Religion that has without compulsion giving more wealth to help strangers, the sick and enemies than the Christian faithful!
9. Wretchard: “What is the haymaker?”
My first thought was the MANPADS as mentioned in geoffgo’s post #54.
Thatzalotta missiles. With fresh batteries. Minimal operational skills required.
tom
re:Wretchard @49 Feedback: Have been lurking/reading at this blog for a while..This is one of the best homilies yet..Your common sense,the opinions of you & your posters, give me much to think on, encourage & stretch the mind…Thank you.
Kin ” What did the Other Side gain by attacking the Benghazi consultate 2 months before an election which might (just might) remove the weakest, most manipulatible US President they could ever hope for?”
I think that is being too far sighted, logical and strategic for the mullahs. This attack was probably all about impressing and controlling the ummah and not about the infidels at all. Iran and the Arab world are both a mess right now, and the mullahs needs something for the ummah to rally around and cheer about.
Whatever strategic info they gleaned from the attack was just frosting on the cake and probably not anticipated. And with our weak, appeasing apologizer in Chief at the helm, our American consulates and embassies are just too easy a target to hit . That and the added benny: ( for which Iran has likely guessed) Buraq will never retaliate.
Affecting American elections I think is just beyond their sensibility and their thought processes. I mean they just took a bit from the Onion and treated it as if it were real.
I don’t think embracing their inner chaos is a policy Iran could pursue for very long without the sponsorship of an outside power. As you say, the rial is collapsing; Iran depends on basically bilateral semi covert oil and gas sales to China and India, with the help of some nice Western bank laundering & etc. Powers like this are not powers, and they do not wage strategic war – nuke pursuit puts this beyond Khobar or Beirut or even Lebanon subversion. Iran is on offense because we, Israel are squeezing it. But this results from decisions made long ago; they certainly pre-date the Iraq War. I note for example that among the declassified broefing reports on Rumsfeld’s book website there were at least 3 or 4 meetings dedicated to “Iran and Russia.”. Just one of the dots, but. And dont forget that Khamanei graduated from Lamumba U, which is only slightly more indicative of formal intelligence friendship than going to Columbia U in the 50s and 60s. But Iran is not the main supporter of Syria, even if it is the most immediate beneficiary of the Assads. Iran probably has the capability to conduct a Benghazi style hit, but why do it alone? A recent Al Arabiyya piece shows the rebels in Syria just killed a high ranking Russian general who has – according to the Kremlin comment – advised Assad for decades. And it is true that for Russia Syria is only a strategic question, whereas for the Islamic Revolution Syria is almost an existential issue. But I just don’t think there is any reason why these would not be coordinated, even the Benghazi level of detail. The locations of this little flare up also smacks of the Grand Mosque-Islamic Revolution-US Embassy attack in Pakistan episode in 1979.
And don’t look now, but Putin just won Georgia. And of course whose side is Turkey really on? You don’t have to go back to their denial of transit to the 4th ID to see that a Russia-Turkey-Iran triangle is much more likely now than it has ever been – so what if Assad loses, but Russia and Iran win if Turkey goes in? What if the purpose of the Benghazi attack is partly to confuse NATO as to the nature of Turkeys loyalties?
On the other hand, this is not exactly the kind of attack that is going to cripple NATO intel capability indefinitely; they probably didn’t wipe out our generation of Libya/Maghreb experts/operators. There might not have even been a serious pause in operations. So maybe it is just a fart in the wind after all.
I can see the TV commercial now….
“Hi, I’m an FBI agent. And I’m Barak Obama’s grabage man. Over here in Benghazi we have U.S. classified documents strewn all over the place. And I’m supposed to pick them up for him. You think he cares how hard I work, how hazardous this is for me? No! You think he even cares if I show up at all? I mean, it took them three weeks to even get me over here! The President of Libya has even come up to me and said that he is sure glad I’m here. Some Libyan security people came up and shook my hand as soon as I got here. But Obama? He doesn’t care. I’m like an invisible man.”
Kinuachdrach – “I submit the only logical explanation is that no-one is in control.”
Chaos is the necessary precursor for a broader reorganization of the MENA and local unrest is its catalyst. The final act of organization is war and that will be controlled by those with the networks and resources in place. Right now that appears to be Iran and the MB. They are in place and in a position to exploit events on the ground. The periphery is amorphous but the center is held fast by a vast and redundant nervous center. The Iranians have effective command and control and the MB has its arteries deep into the social fabric and religious roots of Islam.
No external interlocutors can sufficiently control this group because it is organic and is dichotic in heart and mind. Take Pakistan for example. It is so unstable at its boundaries that it is impossible to penetrate. What could a Iran/MB alliance achieve? a modern caliphate from Morocco to Pakistan. It is possible now for the first time since antiquity, made the more ironic now that the European Union is so clearly failing. Christianity withers, Islam rises. Funny how the fate of the world has come down to which version of faith you subscribe. You choose one by denying another. Ya got ta choose one or the other.
I would not be so quick to throw Russia under the bus, or at least not the same bus as the Islamists. In this topsy-turvy world of moral relativism Russia alone has stood up against the Culture of Death of modernism to affirm traditional family and moral values. This effort was opposed mightily at the UN by the United States and by Western Europe. UN Human Rights Council Affirms Traditional Values
“By their fruits you shall know them.” Under this standard Russia is looking a whole lot better as a cultural avatar than the United States.
k @ 50: What did the Other Side gain by attacking the Benghazi consultate 2 months before an election which might (just might) remove the weakest, most manipulatible US President they could ever hope for?
1. The Islamic pattern is to never miss a chance to miss a chance. If you thought that was just the Palestinians, or just the Arabs, well maybe it applies to the Persians as well. Not to mention the Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Turkmen, Baluch, Kabuli, etc.
Actually the Persians are also good chess players, and their past moves against America have usually been more strategic. But frankly, have any of them ever really gone anywhere or had any positive results?
2. Any strike against the Great Satan is a good thing. What they are is in the moment, existential. Somewhere between a sneak thief and an arsonist. Strategic thinking is not really their cultural strength, more like stealing a pawn. You can be good at chess and yet the better advice can be, “Let the Wookie win.”
3. It was the only 9/11 this year and they could hardly let it pass without appropriate celebration.
I like to think that somewhere in the myriad departments of our govt. there is the equivalent of a damage controll room on a warship. All of the injuries we seem to be suffering under the current regime are laid on a model of the nation floating in a tank, and the neccessary counter balance is computed and applied. But I know thats an illusion.
With all of Ron Pauls concern about the stock of gold in Ft. Knox, I would like to see someone inventory the Nuclear lockers and tell us how well protected from an attack are we; how effectively can we respond? Can we respond at all?
This president voiced the ambition to rid the world of nuclear weapons, Bill Clinton chased the same rainbow. How far along on that on road have they taken us?
It might be a good time to look at our hole card, if we still have one.
50. Kinuachdrach
What did the Other Side gain by attacking the Benghazi consultate 2 months before an election which might (just might) remove the weakest, most manipulatable US President they could ever hope for?
I’m sure they gained many things that meant something to them. For example it was September 11, a good day to poke the Great Satan. I think we are watching a whole bunch of tribal groups just being themselves. Benghazi seemed to be a project of the Al Quaeda tribe. Sure there are overarching common cultural/theological/political collegiates that they all belong to and support, but at any time any tribe can decide to run away and have an excellent adventure. I think Western mediaeval armies were composed of tribal groups who were prone to go off on their own adventures during the battle.
Maybe these guys are just being old fashioned.
blert @ 52 :
That gasoline situation in California is very illustrative to any Californians who are paying attention, and I sure hope many are motivated by the sting of high prices to do so. Their shortage is entirely caused by government. Of course events did conspire to cause a problem. There was a fire at a major refinery, a power outage at another, and a pipeline had to be shut down because too much chorine showed up in the crude. Then again, these things do happen in the natural course of things, but when a minimal refinery network is the mandated design (there has not been a new refinery allowed since the 1970′s despite increased demand), disruptions causing supply problems are more likely.
Gasoline prices are stable or falling across the whole country sans California, but in California the government mandates special blends of gasoline, and it is this special blend that is in short supply. Oil companies have appealed to the state asking for a temporary waiver so they can bring other blends into the California market, therefore increasing supply and reducing prices. They weren’t denied this exactly, but were told, “there isn’t enough time to make a decision.” The bureaucrats would have to get off their duffs and find out if there is indeed a supply shortage before they could make a decision. This is apparently too hard and time consuming, so there’s nothing they can do, bless their hearts. Hands are tied.
California, wake up! Your government is screwing you, due to one part incompetence, one part bureaucratic inertia, and three parts wrong headed, intrusive, destructive philosophy.
Cowboy #66:
Several years ago now I read an interesting item by an executive from a major oil company.
He was attending a course on refinery operations in Southern California and one the local Feds came in to brief them.
The Feds had a major new initiave they were so very proud of. In the future if a refinery was found to be viotlating regulations they were going to hold the local manager responsible, as in PERSONALLY responsible. As in $$$$$$ from his personal pocket. They had figured out a way to ensure that the company could not pay the fines and the manager had to, himself.
When asked if they had considered the economic impact of that approach the Feds replied, “Us impact the economy? Little old us impact a multi billion dollar industry? Surely you jest!”
Aside from the fact that they proposed to impact not “the industry” but a specific individual I find this story beliveable because it mirrors what I saw in DC. That is the exact attitude of each congressman or aide that proposes to spend tax money on pork or impose restrictions on programs. “Us? This is a multi billion dollar budget, Colonel! You think little old us, by this one action could impact anything meaningfully? Sure you jest! Having the USAF spend $30 million to build that University a new office building and solarium is peanuts in the overall scheme of things. We are talking about a USAF budget of $500M just in RDT&E funds! You can find it somewhere!”
And when you have not 638 but in reality over 26,000 people in Congress all convinced that their little old impact is trivial, well, Senator Dirkson’s famous comment comes to mind.
If you were a refinery manager in So Cal, how careful would you be?
Its helpful to remember that at bottom wars are still won and lost by oil.
The last big turn was back in the early 80′s. Ronald Reagan upped the price at which the soviets could stay in the game by raising his spending on star wars. The Russian economy just couldn’t support that kind of spending. However, they had a chance to stay in the game by growing their exports of oil. They had a big pipeline built in siberia to send oil to foreign markets. But they need to steal the software from the canadians required to regulate the flow of oil. The US caught wind of the theft and had the canadians rig a bug in the software that would cause the pipeline to blow up. Then the Soviets were allowed to steal the software. The resulting explosion in the pipeline could be seen from space. That explosion unnerved the soviet establishment and prevented them from earning the revenues that would have allowed them to stay in the arms game during the 1980′s.
But a second Great Event happened during this period too. Remember that the first two oil shocks of the 1970′s caused the first great explosion of alternative fuel initiatives. Perhaps the greatest initiative was the work in the green river basin of southwestern wyoming and northwestern colorado. The oil companies spent 2-5 billion on mining kerogin oil shale at costs equivalent to about $80@barrel.
The saudis understood that there was enough fuel in the Green River Formation to make the US oil independent and flood the world market with oil.
The saudi response was to flood the world markets with oil–and collapse the price of oil. For several years oil hovered around $12@barrel and gas went back under $1.00 gallon at the pump. world wide.
These low energy price lit a fire under the reagan economy. (why? because low energy prices affect both the top line productivity of workers and the bottom line expenses of consumers)
However, low oil prices collapsed the first initiatives in the green river basin because oil processes for removing oil shale at the time were uncompetitive. All those operations were shut down.
(It should be noted that in the 40 intervening years world oil prices have skyrocket while the costs of converting oil shale or kerogin to oil have collapsed, the russians are now big oil & gas exporters while the saudis no longer have enough reserves to flood the market with oil. Both remain dependent on US innovations to stay in the oil game.)
rwe @ 67: If you were a refinery manager in So Cal, how careful would you be?
I think this situation is entirely covered in “Atlas Shrugged” with the results being that the only idiots who could then volunteer to *be* managers are drunken sots, all the competents having Gone Galt. Is that what you mean?
I actually faced something like this on a small scale recently, and told them to go stuff it.
The situation itself is amusing, given that it should be over in three weeks at worst, and in the meantime shows the greens and bureaucrats in the worst possible light, and I’m not commuting anywhere distant at the moment.
Josh #69:
Actually, I meant that a manager would be more likely to shut down production for minor problems that affect regulatory compliance. If the company did not like it then they could go find someone else.
But you raise a good point. When only idiots would take the risk of being boss you end up with idiots as the norm.
Kind of like when Saddam executed the head of his Air Force during Desert Storm. Right after that, 17 Iraqi jet fighters flew to Iran. A joke was that they were the next ones on the promotion list, or as a US Army General put it, “Saddam seems to have a very vigorous Zero Defects Program.”
Past is prologue. MANPADS and commercial airliners don’t mix. They better quit making excuses and find them fast.
The end of the video clip, with the Salvation Army playing, is both subtle and extremely pertinent. If you have no higher value than expediency, the story isn’t printed. The NYT cuts a deal, in exchange for suppressing Turner’s story they get more influence, etc. However, if you believe in an afterlife, eternal judgment, actual values that transcend the present then you print the story. What will the NYT do? We all know the answer…exactly the same thing they’re doing today. Not “All the news that’s fit to print” but “all the news that fits our viewpoint.” It’ll be a lonely walk, Turner, and they might just let you wander for a while before finishing you off.
FWIW: I thought that Obama bin Sodden whilst he was looking down during the debate was thinking thus: “Damn, ^%$^$* was right, this knuckle dragging Neanderthal is taking me to the cleaners. I don’t know what to say to refute his arguments because I never understood this stuff.”
“%(^&%$^ was right – now we have to ‘bring the whole thing down’, something that I was never comfortable with.”
“But hey! Romney and the conservative right knuckleheads are bringing this shit storm down on their own heads….”
“Not my fault – Bush. Bush made me do what is coming.”
#63 Josh . . .
“Strategic thinking is not really their cultural strength, more like stealing a pawn. You can be good at chess and yet the better advice can be, “Let the Wookie win.”
Excellent strategic thinking! Countries like Iran, which think that they can overwhelm the U.S., are in for a big surprise. If they were run by people with any brains at all, they would let the Wookie (the U.S.) win. Islam, however, seems to produce idiots with scrambled brains. I hope the Iranians can overthrow their insane masters ASAP and get back to their original religion, Zoroastranism, which was quite civilized.
Wretchard has mentioned three things about the Benghazi raid. 1.)that it was done to blind US intelligence. 2.) that it was aided by an intelligence agency working on behalf of AQ 3.)that it was a precursor to something much bigger.
So what scenerio would fit all three of those stipulations.
Here it is.
The benghazi raid was most likely supported by the egyptian intelligence that supported AQ in libya so as to blind the US to an upcoming Egyptian invasion of Libya whose oil the Egyptians desperately need to pay their bills.
(the one problem with this scenario is that the USA provides egypt with arms. an egyptian invasion of libya would first result in the immediate cut off of arms followed by the active expulsion of egypt from Libya. However, egypt will soon be in dire financial shape. desperate people do desperate things.)