I am certain there are terrorists in the country, that wish to do harm. I wonder how many were trained by our CIA, either directly in Afghanistan, or indirectly through CIA-sponsored training at the gradeschool level.
The more important question is the current level of information of the secret police in this country. They have obviously failed in colossal manner to prevent disaster, but are rewarded handsomely by this administration, rather than rolling heads or disbanding them entirely and creating a dependable organization.
Little things like the Spann episode, the bin Laden monitoring episode two years ago, etc., are part of a pattern of activity that indicates (a) they know much more about whereabouts and relative threat of cells/terrorists and (b) by accident or design are leveraging that for political gain of the administration and intel, or (c) are criminally incompetent. In either case it stinks. And they report to Bush, exclusively.
The activities in the past 20 years, such as millions of schoolbooks to Afghani children to inculcate them with death and destruction, the absolute passion for secrecy in illegal activities like Casey and Poindexter, the more recent passion to hide all pres. papers for the past 20 years, the business connections between Bush Inc. and bin Laden ... it goes on and on.
The result is a lack of credibility. Knowing what the action manuals say about overthrowing of governments and control of the populace, means US elements are past masters at all of the episodes we've seen, AND are insistent on the absolute least accountability and responsibility.
These are the same elements the produced Enron in the commercial sphere. Except this is the military/political sphere, where resources are vastly larger, and the consequences last for decades.
I could believe that Bush Inc. were as pure as the driven snow, if the released documents supported it. Unfortunately, what does get released is miniscule, and with monumental effort and great resistance, understandably, since it often confirms our worst fears, whether secret deals in Latin America, secret brainwashing of a generation of Afghanis, or backroom oil deals with corrupt Saudis. This isn't only Bush, but a rather small group of operatives all lumped by me under "Bush Inc." for convenience, since Senior is the constant in all of this over the past several decades, going back to Nixon's taped comment when he was in trouble over Watergate and needed nefarious help:"Ask George, he'll do anything for us". |
