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 (Musharraf’s 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."...
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 Department’s 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.
This guy Bodansky sounds like a major league bullshitter to me.
Intemperate and sensationalizing language with the added discrediting factor of being largely untrue. He sprinkles the entire commentary with this kind of flawed language.
I am very wary of guys like this.
He didn't even mention our wide-open borders that Slamists are crossing...
PING
I quit reading at the word "quagmire".
Prairie