You don't have to like the guy, you can question his motives....but it makes sense to analyze what he's saying. His creds are legitamate.
I can scarcely read 10 words of his IMPERIAL HUBRIS book. It's just so loaded with ideology. "How can this guy be working for the CIA ?" is all I can think of. Well, I've seen indications on this forum and elsewhere that there is an answer to that question.
I read about Imperial Hubris in The Atlantic Monthly, and figured I should browse it the next time I went to the bookstore. I didn't find something I could easily dismiss when I started reading it in the bookstore, so I bought and read the it.
While I don't agree with everything presented within, on the balance, Scheuer makes some damn painful points about the way we're going about our war on terror and the nature of our adversaries.
"Scheuer's statement said senior leadership had allowed the intelligence officers working against al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to be made scapegoats for pre-Sept. 11 failures.
Scheuer was chief of the CIA Counterterrorist Center's unit which focused on bin Laden from 1996 to 1999 and remained a CIA analyst after that."
"You don't have to like the guy, you can question his motives....but it makes sense to analyze what he's saying. His creds are legitamate."
Why no outcry over the Gorelick WALL???
What is his analysis of what we are doing wrong? That is the question. There are errors we are making, that is certain. But so far, the critics have not offered constructive suggestions that would improve the effort as opposed to harmfully undermining our war effort.
What is his analysis of what we are doing wrong? That is the question. There are errors we are making, that is certain. But so far, the critics have not offered constructive suggestions that would improve the effort as opposed to harmfully undermining our war effort.