Comment Re:More Katzenblabber (Score 1) 797
> > >Any government's primary obligation is to protect and defend its citizens. The failure to do that last week occurred primarily, many terrorism
experts say, because our existing intelligence institutions don't have the human resources
Hmmm. . . "terrorisim experts" . . . not exactly sure what the job description on that is (other than, in many cases, a glorified word for a "talking head" who makes the rounds of T.V. talk shows as a self-proclaimed "expert") . . .
Many security experts I've heard seem to think that proper air-port security in general, & decent doors to the cockpit in particular (which airline pilots have been demanding for years), would have prevented the recent attack from occuring.
The question I'd ask is why has the U.S. Govt. repeatedly ignored (thro' several administrations) the rest of the worlds warnings about our lax air-port security, immigration laws, & the aforementioned "cardboard doors" to the cockpit? Perhaps they were "inviting" such an incident to take place so that "non-essintial" rights to privacy could then be "temporaraly" abridged? Maybe it's just me, but isn't there substaintial evidence that the oft compared "Attack On Pearl Harbor" may have been, let's say, not ENTIRELY a "surprise" attack. Perhaps the similarities in these two attacks on Amercian soil run deeper than we think?
Franklin's quote is indeed as apt today as it was some 200 years ago, & I'd say it could be reasonably argued that he uttered it in anticipation of just such circumstances as we face today. Don't forget, gentle readers - in 1814, Britan basicly burned Washington D.C. to the ground in what was essentially a "terrorist" attack on the U.S. - it's purpose was not so much military as it was to "terrorize" the populace & to discourage the spread of the "radical" ideas emanating from the new Nation (after all, folks, they'd recently had that little "problem" in France . . .not good if THAT "democracy" idea spread all over Eroupe!)
As for laying the the "lack of human intelligence resources" at Clinton's feet - another odd statement, since most evidence I've seen says most of those restrictions were put in place by the Ford administration.
experts say, because our existing intelligence institutions don't have the human resources
Hmmm. . . "terrorisim experts" . . . not exactly sure what the job description on that is (other than, in many cases, a glorified word for a "talking head" who makes the rounds of T.V. talk shows as a self-proclaimed "expert") . . .
Many security experts I've heard seem to think that proper air-port security in general, & decent doors to the cockpit in particular (which airline pilots have been demanding for years), would have prevented the recent attack from occuring.
The question I'd ask is why has the U.S. Govt. repeatedly ignored (thro' several administrations) the rest of the worlds warnings about our lax air-port security, immigration laws, & the aforementioned "cardboard doors" to the cockpit? Perhaps they were "inviting" such an incident to take place so that "non-essintial" rights to privacy could then be "temporaraly" abridged? Maybe it's just me, but isn't there substaintial evidence that the oft compared "Attack On Pearl Harbor" may have been, let's say, not ENTIRELY a "surprise" attack. Perhaps the similarities in these two attacks on Amercian soil run deeper than we think?
Franklin's quote is indeed as apt today as it was some 200 years ago, & I'd say it could be reasonably argued that he uttered it in anticipation of just such circumstances as we face today. Don't forget, gentle readers - in 1814, Britan basicly burned Washington D.C. to the ground in what was essentially a "terrorist" attack on the U.S. - it's purpose was not so much military as it was to "terrorize" the populace & to discourage the spread of the "radical" ideas emanating from the new Nation (after all, folks, they'd recently had that little "problem" in France . .
As for laying the the "lack of human intelligence resources" at Clinton's feet - another odd statement, since most evidence I've seen says most of those restrictions were put in place by the Ford administration.
