The CIA is the immune system of the country. It operates invisibly to kill invading threats. This case officer confirmed what I have known from other intelligence operatives: namely, that “several” (to me that would be more than three and less than twenty, which would be “scores”) attacks EQUAL TO OR EXCEEDING 9/11 have been stopped by these people specifically because of the intelligence-gathering tools provided by the Patriot Act. But those men and women and their lifetime of experience are now leaving the agency in droves, specifically because this Leftist President — like most leftists — sees his own people as the enemy of peace and not the 7th Century savages that would have peace-loving people like Mary living in a Burka and unable to leave the house without male escort.
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Obama is giving the American immune system AIDS.When the subject of Obama as a “peacemaker” comes up, people like Mary seem to think that the answer is to be nice and talk to people and the problem will go away. This is known as “mirroring,” and it is the blind spot that most people bring to negotiations — the idea that our opponents want the same things we do. In Afghanistan we are dealing with an enemy who insists on praying to Allah multiple times a day, who believes that women are subhuman, that homosexuals be killed on sight (preferably by crushing them under falling walls — look it up) and that any criticism of Allah, his Prophet (PBOH) or his clerics is punishable by beating or death. That is their IRREDUCIBLE CORE BELIEF SYSTEM and for that they are willing to die. We, on the other hand, believe in fundamental human dignity for all, the right to worship or not as we see fit, the right of women and homosexuals to live lives as equal members of society, and the fundamental right to say whatever we damn well choose. Those in turn are OUR IRREDUCIBLE CORE BELIEF SYSTEMS for which SOME of us are willing to fight and die.
[Bold mine.]Yes, of course you should read the whole thing.
One of the tags on this post is “Government Idiocy”. I though long and hard about that, and I’m still not sure.
I meant that tag to point to things like blind, overzealous application of some regulation, hilarious results of conflicting bureaucracies, that sort of thing.
But Obama and his minions are not being stupid. I think Obama is very smart, albeit inexperienced and naive, but not stupid.
They have a mistaken, nay, deluded belief, many of them, in the most pernicious political superstition ever created: socialism, but that does not make them stupid. Even the smart and well-informed can fall victim to delusion.
However, increasingly, what we are seeing are deliberate actions having their intended effects: the weakening of the United States, and the eradication of the best, though still flawed, political truth ever found: people are by and large capable of running their own lives. It is in this sense that I hope and pray that Obama and company fail, for if they succeed in their plans, an age of darkness will fall. I want America and its ideals to triumph, and that cannot happen if the current administration is not stopped.
That truth undermines power, and Obama, his minions, and their teachers and backers and “favorite political philosophers” are all deeply in love with power.
I think Obama and most of his minions think they will use that power for the good.
But they are idiots drunk on delusion if they think that will last.
The “Government Idiocy” tag stands.
Tags: Bill Whittle, CIA, Obama