Comments on: Played

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Fri, 16 May 2014 02:33:52 +0000

By: Lesser Bull

Lesser Bull — Thu, 15 May 2014 19:51:42 +0000

Classification of information and plans is a statutory statement that democracy is unworkable.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 15 May 2014 09:03:51 +0000

[Fixed]

By: Wilhelm von Überlieferung

Wilhelm von Überlieferung — Thu, 15 May 2014 06:49:20 +0000

Must have not closed a quote. My apologies.

By: Wilhelm von Überlieferung

Wilhelm von Überlieferung — Thu, 15 May 2014 06:43:11 +0000

Haven't you all read this or watched this? The decision makers were steadfast in the belief that they could honestly topple Iraq in 6 months and have moved onto the next country on the list. A list you should all be familiar with in retrospect. When their original plan failed, they changed their strategy. Now that too has failed, so they went to the next step or two in the plan.

By: Scharlach

Scharlach — Wed, 14 May 2014 20:15:12 +0000

We can all rest assured that even if this is false, the truths of covert international relations are beyond our fucking reckoning.

By: sobl

sobl — Wed, 14 May 2014 19:55:59 +0000

This makes sense if you view the architects as out NatSec deep state and the timing of the killing of BinLaden as a necessary killing so we could use AlQaeda as a road team ground force for regime change. Plausible. After all, if a drone can spot a face from 1000s of feet high, you mean to tell me they could not ID the 6’5″ walker at a compound a few miles from Paki military academies?

By: E.Antony Gray (RiverC)

E.Antony Gray (RiverC) — Wed, 14 May 2014 17:19:08 +0000

One may also underestimate the insanity of long-march Cultural Marxists who would believe they were ‘controlling the jihad’ when of course no such thing is possible via those means. To listen to their own rhetoric only says what they aspire to, not necessarily what they could ever even achieve. It may well be that the Benghazi incident represented the first major wakeup call to them that they were lying to themselves.

This is the same criticism applied to the PRISM documents, which looked to represent more what some of the R&D within the NSA wished to achieve and modeled an implementation of, more than what they would actually be able to achieve without nationalizing large tech companies.

I don’t doubt for a moment that the bluegov folks seriously dreamed of ‘taking over jihad from the inside’, since that is Cultural Marxism’s hammer. That it was never remotely feasible may only be clear to someone not enamored with its prowess.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 14 May 2014 14:01:09 +0000

You didn’t find the drone-assassination-plus-infiltration take-over model exactly insane enough to have persuaded some eager people?

By: Peter A. Taylor

Peter A. Taylor — Wed, 14 May 2014 12:49:57 +0000

From the Belmont Club comments:

M. Report: “To refuse to blame the American people for their mistakes is to admit that they cannot govern themselves.”

drbatman: “Well, there are three main possibilities. Number one: incompetence and inexperience. Number two: misguided idealism that believes this course is truly for the good of our country. Number three: this was the agenda all along — to so fundamentally transform America that it would no longer be a Constitutional Republic at home or the world leader abroad.”

“I vote for number three, perhaps not in every minor detail, for there is surely a high level of incompetence as well, but definitely as a strategic program being enacted all too successfully.”