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:
The cycle will go on -- because that is what is wanted. The purpose of the system is what it does.
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?"
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