Intel Report: Fighting Terrorists Creates Terrorists

By Scott Ott, Editor-in-Chief, ScrappleFace.com News Fairly Unbalanced. We Report. You Decipher.

(2006-09-25) — A newly-leaked top-secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) from April 2006 reveals that America’s 16 spy agencies have finally discovered that terrorists are created by attempts to defeat terrorists.

The report concludes that recent global terrorism by Islamic fanatics was “spawned by the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, rather than by evil, wealthy men bent on ruling the world with their hateful, pseudo-religious ideology.”

More than a dozen members of the intelligence community were interviewed for this story, but each insisted on anonymity because, as one senior CIA official said, “folks in the intel business are supposed to keep their mouths shut about classified reports, and we’d like to continue getting our fat government paychecks for essentially playing a guessing game and writing memos.”

The April NIE is a sequel to the pre-war intelligence estimate that documented Saddam Hussein’s stockpiles of chemical weapons and his clandestine nuclear program, so it is considered highly credible by those who oppose the Bush administration’s current Iraq policy.

“Bush operates on the flawed assumption that you can defeat terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere by killing them,” said one unnamed expert familiar with the report, “but, in fact, we’ve learned that killing them actually creates them. It’s like that broomstick scene from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice‘. You chop one in half and then you’ve got two crazy animated broomsticks.”

The source said that CIA decryption analysts are now convinced that “the solution to stopping global terrorism lies in finding the ’secret word’ to break the spell and to turn these anti-Western, anti-Semitic, blood-thirsty religious fanatics into our partners in peace.”

Exactly.

My wife was watching real time with Bill Maher the other day, (yes, I know, I forgive her) and one of the lefty guests made a statement to the effect of: "What is the purpose of terror? It's to elicit a grand overreaching response"

I just sat there confounded...

I always thought the purpose of terrorism was to cause terror in order to force a political viewpoint, or just outright murder.

This guy was basically saying that terrorists attack us so we will strongly attack them back....

pretty self defeating strategy really. You don't score a touchdown with the intent of having the other team score ten touchdowns, right?

The present leftist/MSM template. The real issue is that Islam provides the ideological fertilizer and the field in which this crop of terrorists grow.

Of course, those who are invested in the template were the ones who were involved in leaking the report and in filtering that leaked report into articles and talking points that were published, emailed and faxed. We are left without any news as to whether this *classified* report had a wider discussion of terrorism or even if the section that was leaked was the contrary opinion, or a dissenting view.

If a person parachutes into a remote valley in the tribal area of Pakistan, an area where most children were only educated in a school where the day's lessons only consisted of memorizing the Koran and related teachings, an area where Islamist culture is the mother's milk of the society, and tried to arrest a member of a tribe known to enforce Islamist teachings, not a single person in the west would be surprised when his friends, relatives and fellow worshipers came to his aid.

In that case, would the resulting violence be "our fault"? Would it be "our fault" that we would be "less safe"?

Having the criteria being whether or not we are "less safe" entirely misses the point. It is like saying we should pay a ransom demand lest we suffer the wrath of the kidnapper.

People who almost cheer a report that claims we are "less safe" because we overthrew Saddam never care to think, much less publish those thoughts for rebuttal, of what today's world would be like had the US allowed Saddam to remain in power, especially given last week's performance of the Kooks With Oil at the United Nations.

If we think things are bad now, they could be much worse.

Rather than blame the US for being "less safe", I think it is much more plausible to conclude that we are seeing the harvest rush- the fruit ripening from the madrassas, and from the worldwide network of Saudi-funded Wahhibist mosques and recruiters. The line of suicide bombers doesn't suddenly form in the desert based on no context and no long period of development. It is instead a pipeline that started to be filled years ago. Part of our burden and cost in dealing with the Jihadist War (a more honest title than the GWOT) is in absorbing what comes out of the end of that pipeline. We will only start to win the JW when we suppress or destroy enough of that pipeline. But, until we deal with the ideology that nurtures and encourages jihadists to line up to be blown up, we will be at war.

How to become more safe? The Jihadists demand that the West accept their "invitation" to Islam. As we ponder this "invitation", we are offered Islam's Three Choices: convert, submit or die.

My question to the left: is your decision going to be based only on what will make you more "safe"? It doesn't matter what you choose, does it, unless there really is a God?

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