CIA agent says we're letting Bin Laden win

[Aptrgangr]

CIA agent says we're letting Bin Laden win

BY MICHAEL SCHEUER

On the sixth 9/11 anniversary, Americans can see that Osama Bin Laden has taught them a valuable lesson about the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the U.S.bipartisan governing elite. In 1989, Bin Laden famously told the mujahedeen that beating the U.S. would be easier than defeating the U.S.S.R. in Afghanistan because Americans are soft, impatient, risk averse and afraid to offend their effete European role models by fully using U.S. military power.
Osama was wrong about our military's courage — it is fighting superbly against long odds — but dead right regarding our elected and high-ranking appointed officials, Republicans and Democrats alike.

The moral cowards governing us today have handed Afghanistan to Bin Laden. Instead of sending a half-million troops to that country, sealing its border with Pakistan, annihilating anyone who fought us, and then coming home, President Bush listened to then-CIA director George Tenet's promise that bribery and a few CIA and U.S.Special Forces officers would win the war. Tenet's recipe let about 60,000 Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters go home with their guns and missed Bin Laden at Tora Bora.
And as for those now aspiring to the presidency, I don't hear a single voice — Democrat or Republican — claiming we should have wielded far more force there.
As a result of this cowardice, today we are fighting a more numerous and better trained and armed foe. Meanwhile, Bin Laden and his boys sit unmolested on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, planning more attacks in America because our bipartisan elite long ago delegated America's protection to a beleaguered Third World dictator.
On balance, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are more threatening today than on 9/11. As the July National Intelligence Estimate reported, the core of Al Qaeda is rebuilt, aiding Iraqi and Afghan insurgents, and preparing attacks in the United States. Worse, the proliferation of Al Qaeda-inspired, homegrown groups in the West is accelerating, as we saw last week in Germany and Denmark.

Bin Laden is doing well militarily: He commands a potent organization, and is instigating a new worldwide threat that is nearly impossible to detect, let alone preempt. The lies of U.S. political leaders do not help us face down our foe. They say Bin Laden, et. al are primarily motivated by their hatred of America's freedoms. Not so. The impact of our policy is the Islamists' core motivation and a glue of unity for that ethnically and linguistically diverse crowd.

The second oft-heard lie is that America is safer than on 9/11. But our governing elite has knowingly failed to accomplish its two most vital post-9/11 tasks: controlling U.S. borders and fully securing the former Soviet Union's nuclear weapons.
Because of this criminal neglect, no level of American law enforcement has a fighting chance to stop the next attack, unless an obviously deranged guy, wearing a Bin Laden T-shirt and carrying a clearly labeled Soviet nuke, comes through an official entry point.
So on this 9/11, we must accept this sad and infuriating reality: Bin Laden is winning. He has defied us, attacked us, eluded us and inspired new threats we cannot begin to enumerate.

To be victorious in this long war, we must get smarter and more ruthless. That means reducing U.S. intervention in the Muslim world, keeping policies essential to U.S. security and unloading those that undermine it — like energy dependence on the Saudi and other Gulf regimes. This will start to deflect Islamist and Muslim ire onto their main enemy, the Arab world's Islamofascist rulers.
Second, we must ignore international opinion and apply overwhelming military force on Islamists and their abettors whenever necessary to defend America. This will cost Bin Laden much of the popular support generated by some current U.S. policies.
As this support erodes, the Islamists can be destroyed by men and women descended from those who delivered catastrophe to America's German and Japanese enemies.

Scheuer served in the CIA for 22 years, and was chief of the Bin Laden unit at the agency's counterterrorist center from 1996 to 1999. He is the author of "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror.

CIA agent says we\'re letting Bin Laden win

[Marulus]

Even the Moscow Pravda from Soviet times would be ashamed to publish such a rubbish propaganda, on such a crudely primitive level. The Amerofascists (I don't like the moronic tag fascist, but just to ridicule their extensive usage thereof) by far exceeded the Soviets in this respect. Maybe because their Joe the Average, fixed on a boob tube, is much less educated than the average USSR citizen was and therefore much more likely to swallow any crude nonsense.

All spiced up with typically neo-American neo-con bloodthirstiness and cruelty. The author appears to deplore the fact that were too little casulaties so far in their ongoing war.

These Amerofascists are really sick and below any human decency.

[bioblitzkrieg]

the congress of the unites states has not declared war since 1941 in world war 2, since then weve had "executive measures" taken up by presidents and backed by thier party, lobby or politically correct ideology, its total bullshit, each war where the people of the united states dont get to see thier representatives choose if they enter a conflict means the american people become industrial meat with no free will or the right to bear one, I live here and each year the reality becomes more and more clear, we are to be livestock attached to televisions, video games, and anything fast and cheap visual entertainment our little ipods can muster, when it comes time to save freedom here or help democracy there, 70% of the american public will be tied to thier couches gaining wieght while thier children move ever closer to being drafted, but then the average joe will say "but it cant get that bad...bush will be out soon anyway"

Atleast in the third reich people believed in something beautiful and noble with selfless dedication "inhuman atrocities aside " and gave up thier individual voice with that in mind, in america we have gone Nazilite, all the firepower, none of the group spirituality or farsighted goals, just freedom this and freedom that, f**k freedom, america was once something to be inspired by, now I cant wait to leave this sh*thole.

sorry for the sharp words, frustration calls for them occasionally.