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Former CIA head of Bin Laden unit; "international Islamist movement that is much larger, more lethal, and more genuinely motivated by faith"
Topic Started: Dec 11 2010, 06:05 AM (65 Views)
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"The hardest part of exploiting this material is encountering the students and people who attend my public talks or read my books who’ve trusted Clinton, Bush and Obama to teach them about the nature and motivation of America's Islamist enemy. A good portion of these individuals truly believe that the United States is being attacked because of its freedoms, liberties, gender equality, Christianity, elections, etc, and not for what the US government does overseas. It’s only on reading what Bin Laden, et al have said and written that they begin to question what’s been told them by their last three presidents and begin to realize that Bin Laden represents an international Islamist movement that is much larger, more lethal, and more genuinely motivated by faith than the nonexistent small group of ‘thugs, criminals, cowards, and nihilists’ described by Clinton, Bush and Obama."

Essentially eviscerates the position that the terrorists you hear about are an "insignificant mass"

..but by all means! Let 'em keep coming in!
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And also the notion that we can appease them by making nice living conditions for their fellow Muslims.
Brian of London has been actively occupying a very small slice of hideously over-occupied Tel Aviv since early 2009.


Islam is a giant bungee cord tying it's adherents to the 7th century.
They can pull themselves almost to the twenty first century but eventually the cord tightens and flings them back.
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The officers that I had the honour to lead, with the unstinting and courageous cooperation of their colleagues deployed overseas, completed the mission assigned to them by the president of the United States and his national security advisers. The latter refused to act on the intelligence they had in hand—which was more than sufficient to capture or kill Osama bin Laden—because of a combination of moral cowardice; a stark fear of media and European criticism; the need to avoid alienating Arab tyrannies who supply our oil and buy our arms and debt; and a desperate desire to avoid doing anything that would hurt the chances of keeping the White House in Democratic hands. The foregoing will be fully validated when the 9/11 Commission's archive is opened to the public.


This quote from the interview says much about the pusillanimous nature of the US leadership and I believe our own are probably worse. The interview does underline the fact that the nature of the threat we face is wide-spread and growing.
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Out of the three, Bush, Clinton and Obama, Obama is the only one who has gone out of his way to over-zealously embrace Islam and Islamists (he's even included some of them in his own administration) whilst the USA folk looked on in shock, and as if that wasn't enough, Obama has done what no other USA President has done, spent a great deal of time denigrating his own country to other countries.
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Dec 11 2010, 07:31 AM
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The officers that I had the honour to lead, with the unstinting and courageous cooperation of their colleagues deployed overseas, completed the mission assigned to them by the president of the United States and his national security advisers. The latter refused to act on the intelligence they had in hand—which was more than sufficient to capture or kill Osama bin Laden—because of a combination of moral cowardice; a stark fear of media and European criticism; the need to avoid alienating Arab tyrannies who supply our oil and buy our arms and debt; and a desperate desire to avoid doing anything that would hurt the chances of keeping the White House in Democratic hands. The foregoing will be fully validated when the 9/11 Commission's archive is opened to the public.


This quote from the interview says much about the pusillanimous nature of the US leadership and I believe our own are probably worse. The interview does underline the fact that the nature of the threat we face is wide-spread and growing.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3008822.Kill_Bin_Laden

A good book about the Op in Afghanistan (Tora Bora). Worth a read.

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