Tell us how you really feel about the Obama Adminstration, Michael Scheuer

[Cowlesy]

A Scheuer excoriation at its finest!


How is the Obama administration doing? Well for having a president with no relevant political or foreign policy experience; a terrorism Czar who made his CIA career by endlessly saying "Yes, Mr. Tenet, you are a genuis"; a National Security Adviser who has forgotten that he was Marine and is happy to let a marooned U.S. Army twist slowly in the wind until it dies in Afghanistan; a vice president who thinks the Cold War is still at its height because he never stops talking long enough to learn the Wall fell 20 years ago; an Attorney General who calls Americans cowards and whose only discernible talent is an ability to sell presidential pardons for Clinton; a CIA director who does not want to kill senior al-Qaeda leaders; and a Homeland Security chief who thinks military veterans, retired police officers, and anti-abortion Americans are right-wing terrorists, one would have to say that they are at least as good as the Bush administration. That is, they too are leading America toward military defeat, financial ruin, and a domestic cultural war. But to be fair, we should withhold judgment until their bosses at home and abroad have written their performance appraisals. Let's wait and see what AIPAC, the Saudi king, CAIR, the Israeli prime minister, the ACLU, and the money-lending Commies in Beijing have to say about how well the Obama administration has protected their interests.

http://security.nationaljournal.com/2009/11/whackamole-in-the-war-on-terro.php

[AdamT]

LOL wow, nice one Scheuer.

[Dieseler]

That's the coolest thing I have read in months.

[constituent]

Has he released a statement on the incident in killeen?

[Cowlesy]

Has he released a statement on the incident in killeen?

Don't know, but if you click on his name in the National Journal link, it brings up all his postings.

[Pericles]

Solid hit on target once again.

[Cowlesy]

Dov Zakheim has an "interesting" take on things.

Dov S. Zakheim, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer (2001-2004), Booz-Allen Hamilton


I agree with those who find "whack-a-mole" too simplistic and reflective of our lack of any real strategy for fighting terrorism. We cannot, and should not, send our troops hither and yon to fight terrorists. Such an approach depletes our materiel, and, more importantly, our human resources, and accomplishes little. Terrorists are not a single unified group, and they can sprout anywhere. Of course they will prefer iungovernable terriitory, but they can operate in any place--ask the citizens of London, Madrid, or for that matter, New York.

We need to treat terrorists the way we once treated anarchists. Terrorists are not common criminals, but they can be dealt with through enhanced international police cooperation, as the world once did when it dealt with anarchists who blew up palaces, parliament buildings, and assassinated world leaders, including President McKinley. We need not and will not nab every terrorist, any more than we killed or captured every terrorist, But the civilized world destroyed anarchist networks, and it can defeat terrorist networks.

In dealing with terrorists, we must not tie our own hands too tightly. Targeted assassinations make a difference--ask the Israelis--and are pefectly legitimate as a tactical element of a larger anti-terrorism strategy. Technology allows the efficient use of armed unmanned aerial vehicles that involves minimal loss of American lives. Other states also have unmanned vehicles and should be recruited in this effort.

I must stress that there is no law that bars assassinations of foreign leaders. It is an Executive Order (number 12333) that was signed by Gerald Ford in 1976. Times have changed, and the Executive Order should be modified and clarified. We cannot afford to be politically correct when it comes to dealing with terrorist leaders. While we should not give credence to their claim to be at war with us--they are not warriors of any kind--we certainly decapitate their organizations. We have done so in wartime and have even attempted to do in peacetime, for example, during the 1986 Gulf of Sidfra operation when we targeted Moamar Ghadaffi's house.

Finally, we must press all the major financial powers to cooperate even more closely in choking off terrorist financing. The Central Banks of some states, for example, the Bank of England, cooperate far more closely with us than do other Central Banks. All major financial powers must be pressured into joining this effort. We have the means to exert pressure; we should use them.

A combination of enhanced international police and related intelligence cooperation, of increased financial pressures,and of aggressive decapitation tactics will go a long way toward ridding the world of terrorist networks, and relegating them to the dustbin of history that already houses the anarchists of a century ago.

[angelatc]

I must stress that there is no law that bars assassinations of foreign leaders.

I suspect that murder is illegal by local statute everywhere. And I doubt diplomatic immunity would last very long if they were routinely dispatched to assassinate political opposition.

[lester1/2jr]

he definately has a unique take on things

[tangent4ronpaul]

blimp!

+1

-t