Sunday, December 27, 2009
Account from the NWA flight
For fear that we fail to take the real moral here, “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse,” Casey said.
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"Firecrackers, the guy was crazy, you 'd have to be crazy to bring something like that on the plane."
Most people seemed to be in denial of what I saw was evident. This guy wanted to kill all of us, he had wanted to blow up the plane. When I said this, they would just shake their heads; even those that had seen it happen didn't want to believe it.
It's an axiom on Pepea. How can anyone believe something that contradicts an axiom?
I wonder if I had ever had the opportunity to meet Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and talk shop with, discuss the agro-processing devices and small solar lighting systems ... supply chains and accessing rural markets ... that he might have seen that at least this American was not his enemy. Or maybe it wouldn't have mattered at all; how can you reason with what is inherently unreasonable.
Mais non, mais non, keep reasoning. That'll do it.
In the meantime, AQ is hatching plots in Yemen. But, not to worry, says Janet, there is no indication of a wider plot. Just drink some more ouzo, and be happy.
Wasn't Richard Clarke the counter-terrorism czar in the years leading up to 9/11 (which happened on his watch), and then the guy who kept bitching about how bad a job Bush was doing in the WOT? Well, OK, maybe he's waking up a bit now: "So once again, we have the U.S. government, as in the case of the Fort Hood attacks, knowing about someone, knowing that they were suspicious, but that information didn't get to the right people in time." Shocka!
Interesting couple of ``reversals" here. The HuffPo guy is off the Kool-Aid though he is going back to Africa, likely to make life better on the training grounds of future terrorists.
Perhaps he has thought this through and thinks that this improvement in the lives of those people will cause fewer to become terrorists in the first place. I doubt that, but it it possible.
He is clear in saying that ``this American" is no enemy of someone's. Sounds like a surrender a little, too.
Clarke now becomes a hardass. It could be that he wants a bump on sales of his dumb book, in which which he cast himself in some competent hardass middle role (as opposed to putatively incompetent hardasses like W and Cheney). Perhaps he learned his lesson and now is playing straight.
I think the former. Also, he might like the phone calls from the Sunday morning shows in themselves.
Sorry, Obamism has me thinking the worst of people immediately, always.
Is there anyone smart left in this field? Most of the time, it sounds like the Keystone Kops are on the case.
Just El Al.
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