Posted on 10/04/2004 6:12:17 PM PDT by wagglebee
Extremely disturbing...
However- someone correct me if I'm mistaken- but wasn't Bodansky somewhat discredited last year?
Iran, Al Qaeda, and the rest of the wretched lot are going to try to hurt Bush in Iraq over the next four weeks. They want more sound bites for defeatist Kerry to use. That's why I like the timing of the coalition and Iraqi forces offensive to reduce the enemy rathole by rathole, and thereby interfere with their plans.
Bodansky has some good information. but I wouldn't describe him as an optimist.
Scary. I don't want to think about what happens if this happened in the US.
The US cannot let Iran become a "nuclear state".
This should be shouted from the rooftops - all the more reason to vote for Bush!
..."...as long as the Mullahs Regime remains in power, and for as long as the Jihadist culture remains prevalent and dominant in Pakistan (Musharrafs declared policies not withstanding), the qualitative Islamist-Jihadist war against the U.S.-led West -- that is, the lethal, spectacular, strategically-significant terrorist strikes -- will keep escalating."...
maybe once the election passes - all this nonsense about the nuclear suitcase bombs will stop.
I have a feeling that 2005 will be a VERY BAD YEAR for Iranian jihadists.
As I was reading this article, I was thinking 'I'll bet wagglebee already posted this.'
You beat me to a lot of stuff! I for one appreciate your vigilance.
If we were winning nobody would read Bodansky's stuff or invite him on talk shows.
That's when I stopped.
I think he's wrong that things are going bad in Afghanistan or Iraq. It really isn't that bad. The only thing that makes it dangerous is the Fifth Column in our own country.
I think he's absolutely right about the intelligence community. The FBI and the CIA are sick, sick, sick. Weak, corrupt, and politicized. They badly need fixing, and I haven't seen any real signs that Bush understands that. It has been one of his biggest failures.
He did finally dump Tenet, but events since then have not been that encouraging. Maybe after the election he'll act, but I'm not holding my breath.
tell us something we don't know.
The current disastrous state of affairs is the outcome of more than a decade of intentional recruitment of like-minded individuals to sustain the course.
Consequently, there emerged an institutional culture -- much like the State Departments culture -- that taints and tilts analysis, refusing to confront the possibility of lack of knowledge or errors of judgment.
Well, mass casualties on an unprecedented scale could be caused preventively within "Islamdom". It might even work.
I don't see how in the world anyone could possibly know this. It's not as if someone can take a headcount of terrorists.
You have to remember that John "Inspector Jacques Clouseau"
Loftus gets a lot of his stuff from Bodansky.
I read Bodansky's book and he said in his notes that he could not keep notes and that all he wrote had to come from memory.
He had a lot details that you had to question his actual first hand knowledge. One of them was that chemical agents had been load into RPG-7s in Iraq.
I agree. I think he's much too pessimistic about terrorism because that position is good for his business. That said, the threat of an Islamist takeover of Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal is extremely serious. But I strongly doubt AQ has a working nuclear suitcase bomb.
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