Instead of shattering the CIA, or even curtailing it, the NYT story
confirms, yet again, that Obama is accelerating the militarization of
the agency, and giving it broad new scope to deceive and murder. What's
more, as we noted here a few days ago, Obama's handpicked "special
envoy" for the "Af-Pak front," Richard Holbrooke, admitted, in a little-noticed story last month,
that the United States is carrying out covert operations in "every
country in the world." And all of this is accepted without debate,
without demur, as a just, honorable and natural state of affairs.
And while Obama is praising the murderers, torturers and
incompetents of the CIA, the Agency itself is plotting its revenge for
the blowback against its own dirty war, as CNN reports, with an obvious
frisson of titillation at the tough talk:
"This attack will be avenged through
successful, aggressive counterterrorism operations," [an anonymous]
intelligence official vowed. "There are some very bad people who
eventually are going to have a very bad day," the official promised
Friday.
And so, as I wrote the day after 9/11
(and quoted again recently, in this piece about Obama's surging Terror
War): "Blood will have blood; that's certain. But blood will not end
it. For murder is fertile: it breeds more death, like a spider laden
with a thousand eggs. And who now can break this cycle, which has been
going on for generations?"
The cycle will go on -- because that is what is wanted. The purpose of the system is what it does.Next Page 1 | 2
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Chris Floyd is an American journalist. His work has appeared in print and online in venues all over the world, including The Nation, Counterpunch, Columbia Journalism Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Il Manifesto, the Moscow Times and many (more...)
