Carter is behaving VERY self distructive WHY no one ever ask that question, motivators Money,Sex,Ego, people just turn their head when Jimmy Carter speaks because he is a retired President, they don’t want to tarnish the office. Still he is human and there is obviously something going on? A failed Presidency? Is Carter trying to prove something? Here is the problem with intellectualizing every challenge, you fail to act effectively, you spend all the time thinking the “issue” to death. Carter is leaving something important out of the equation “Survival” most human beings have a sense of survival..does intellectualizing everything blunt that “Instinct” ? I don’t think Carter has very good “Instincts” that is my personal opinion, it isn’t about how he makes judgements it is about a lack of basically good Human Instincts. Someone would do the American people a great favor by analyzing what is at the “Core” of Jimmy Carter that makes him Act Out as he does consistently, then publishing their findings. I suspect an inferiority complex.

Yeah we wouldn’t know because it has basically been ignored. Kinda like the search for OBL.

But hey, what’s a little bio-terror? Nothing to lose any sleep about.

Steven Hatfill and the troops in Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan would be interested to learn that those 2 things have “basically been ignored”, because they didn’t know.

Not sure why some people choose to be willfully stupid. We have wanted people in this country that can’t be found. Hell, the Olympic bomber eluded capture for 5 years by hiding in the mountains of NC, and the Unabomber eluded capture for 18 years. If not for his brother, he’d probably still be on the loose.

It’s not hard to conceive of OBL eluding capture considering he has smarts, cash, resources, and folks willing to give him aid, not to mention any number of countries to choose from that are off limits to us.

I guess what I’m saying, basically, is don’t be an ignorant ass all your life.

OCG, this reminds me of a briefing in the Marine Corps when the Marine presented the brief was repeatedly asked “how” a certain action was going to be accomplished; he replied, “we’re going to do it the same way Marines have always done it; however it works, because that’s what we do!” Thanks for the memory.

That day has never happened yet in recorded human history, and no man knows the day or the hour for whence that scenario will come to fruition.

And look at what good ol’ Jihad Jimmy Carter is up to now.

He is basically accusing the US of crimes against humanity in a speech in England.

Usually paraphrased as: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

The day that bad men stop working together to snuff out freedom and liberty will be the day we can ask the question “what now?”. That day has never happened yet in recorded human history, and no man knows the day or the hour for whence that scenario will come to fruition.

Yeah we wouldn’t know because it has basically been ignored. Kinda like the search for OBL.

But hey, what’s a little bio-terror? Nothing to lose any sleep about.

Actually it has not been ignored as you claim. Here is a link to a March 2008 story stating that the FBI has narrowed the investigation down to four suspects.

Perhaps if you would actually pay attention to the news and not just the ravings on the daily KOS you would have known this.

And do not get me started on OBL. How many times did the CLinton Administration have him targeted and call it off at the last minute? There was even at least one time where a foreign government was willing to give exact information on OBL’s whereabouts to the US and hold him there for us to pick him up, but Clinton was too busy dealing with his scandal to be bothered. It would sure be nice to know what documents Sandy Burger stuffed in his pants. Kind of convienient that the only copies of some documents (only Sandy Berger and the Clinotns know what they are) were destroyed during the 9/11 commission hearings.

Because no one knows who committed them. It was initially blamed on domestic terrorism, not al-Qaeda and Friends. Don’t know what they are thinking now…

Yeah we wouldn’t know because it has basically been ignored. Kinda like the search for OBL.

But hey, what’s a little bio-terror? Nothing to lose any sleep about.

Why does no one ever count the anthrax attacks?

Because no one knows who committed them. It was initially blamed on domestic terrorism, not al-Qaeda and Friends. Don’t know what they are thinking now…

In any case, as I recall it came so soon after 9/11 that it can’t really be said to enter the equation of whether or not the strategy worked.

Here in Asheville, there a signs throughout the area marking “Rutherford’s Trace.” The story is this: In 1776, the Cherokee went to war with the settlers who were encroaching on their territory. The settlers found it impossible to stop the raids – there was too much territory to cover. The Cherokee could strike where they pleased, and and so long as they evaded any force big enough to beat them they were pretty much invulnerable (their defeat at Hanging Rock, I believe, was due to overconfidence and accepting battle from an equal force). The settlers responded by attacking – several groups marched simultaneously deep into the Appalachian Mountains, the biggest led by Rutherford, and attacked the Cherokee villags, burning their homes and crops. The Cherokee sued for peace a few months later.
Another story – In late 1944 or early 1945 (I forget the exact date), the US Navy was faced with trying to deal with the kamikaze attacks from Japan. It proved impossible to stop them completely, since they tended to attack in swarms and while numbers were shot down by both anti-aircraft fire and defending fighter aircraft, it proved impossible to always kill them all before they dived home. One kamikaze could sink a ship. The person who was asked to solve the problem came up with the “Big Blue Blanket” strategy – to keep the Japanese airfields under constant attack so that the kamikaze attacks could never get off the ground. I don’t think it was a complete success, but it helped enough that we could keep pressing on towards Japan.

It seems to me that on 9/11 we faced a similar strategic situation – against us was an enemy that, were the initiative left up to him, could strike anywhere. Unless we turned the US into a police-state we really could not stop them. The attacker would inevitably get through at some point. Sealing ourselves off from the world wasn’t an option, nor was doing nothing. Bush chose the third way – to attack, deprive the enemy of his base and logistical support and at the same time (hopefully) to change the conditions that led to the rise of al-Qaeda in the first place. I am not sure that succeeded, but I believe the basic idea was both sound and responsible – not to simply put off the threat long enough that it would no longer be his responsibility, but to get his hands dirty and try to deal with the problem once and for all. He didn’t have to all this after all – he could have just bombed, or staged a quick invasion and a quick pull-out that would been popular but ultimately done nothing.

On May 26th, 2008 at 7:26 pm, brooklyn red said:

Typical, change strategy, but no plan as to what to change it to… Hmmm maybe if we gave them all free health care & hot lunches, is that what you had in mind?

Actually, I think the Dem plan is to have cuddle parties with the terrorists. Although this will be meant to increase understanding and harmony amongst all people, in the end the terrorists just might capitulate to avoid further parties.

Typical, change strategy, but no plan as to what to change it to… Hmmm maybe if we gave them all free health care & hot lunches, is that what you had in mind?

MY IDEA for changing strategy is rather more specific… first we start at home.