Reply #23: After my trials this week, I'll try to pick it up [View All]

...I don't accept the premise that al qaeda is anything but a state sponsored organization, manipulated by the intel agencies who benefit politically from its limited existence. That would be the intel agencies of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United States, and Israel. Zarquawi for example is little more than a creation of the media meant to link the international "terrorist" threat to what is in essence a war of national liberation from a colonial occupier. If our war fails, which it will, the paradigm of international terrorism needs to be resuscitated.

The "international terrorist threat" is a poor cousin to the cold war paradigm it is designed to replace. If you can't see how the "terrorist" threat was used to inject US forces into Iraq and elsewhere I can't explain it to you. This book falls into the category of a fall back position and plausible denial. He's rehabilitating the tautology of a failing justification. It now needs to stand on its own, the linkage to a failed war needs to be undone at some point. It's an artificially manufactured dialectic.

I haven't read the book, because most of the stuff written by former CIA is so full of disinformation, I can't read more than 30 to 60 pages before realizing that it is little more than propaganda. I've read the articles about him or that he published, I just don't accept his paradigm.

Actually I won't pick it up. I'll speed read the first few chapters and I'll probably do what I do with most open market CIA publications, put it back on the shelf. I like their country studies though.