Nearly five years after George Bush vowed to bring Osama bin Laden to justice “dead or alive”, it’s the end of the line for the CIA’s Alec Station, the unit dedicated to the hunt for the al-Qaida leader.
The unit, named after the son of a counter-terror official, was disbanded last year, it emerged this week, and its agents reassigned in what intelligence officials described as a recognition of the changing nature of al-Qaida.
Pshaw. Isn’t it great how the Mission Accomplished crowd stays the course?
“Sorry dude, this is not the Ladies Social here. It is Dvorak Uncensored. And as much as I disagree with several … posters, they have every right to say what they say. Sure, sometimes some posts are silly … None of that ever takes away from their right, freedom, and privilege to post here.
…So far this post has around 40 posts. A pretty good response by any measure. Your post made some very good points. Right up until you suggested you were morally and intellectually superior.
So may God help the one who needs it the most.”
I’ll second that prayer, wholeheartedly.
You claim to wear a badge that isn’t in evidence here, Mr. H. You proudly state DU is not a “Ladies Social…”? Unfortunately, that’s precisely what it sounds like. And while you correctly say that you all have the right to chatter aimlessly and venomously at each other about things extraneous to the real issue, you seem to forget that I have an equal right to point out that A] you’re doing it, and B] how destructive a trend that is, especially on an issue like this one, and with a group that should know better. That’s my freedom too.
I will also point out that totality of response is no measure of the worth of what’s being said. 40 posts or 4000 – what difference does it make when the level of comment hardly goes any higher than “go sit in a corner with Milo”? Even with your post, you found it more important to defend everyone’s right to blather ‘conservatively’ or ‘liberally’ in the face of an important issue, rather than rigorously address that issue (otherwise known as “the indefensible”). Quantity does not equal quality, my friend.
Lastly, I am not suggesting I am morally better than anyone, short of an axe murderer, in any sense. I am saying that, even with my rather average gifts on that score as a benchmark, this thread and the majority of the posters who’ve contributed to it are making a mockery of themselves. I am also saying that I see the same sick joke played out everywhere that ‘Blue Staters’ and ‘Red Staters’ get together – online or off. And lastly, I am saying that this tendancy, if not checked on all sides, will lead to the destruction of our country.
Again, as I honestly do NOT see myself as superior, I’m left to conclude – logically – that only the most self-absorbed keyboard jockeys among us couldn’t, with a story such as this one, identify and work to avoid that fundamental problem. And yes – these people would in any other context be known as “fools”. While foolishness – luckily for all of us – isn’t necessarily a perpetual ‘illness’, left untreated it usually is a fatal one. I guess you can condemn me for trying to give you a ‘heads up’ if you want, but I assure you I didn’t do it out of ego.
So, with all that in mind, and still no one else here dealing with the outrage that disbanding the bin Laden unit before his actual capture/death really is, I continue to stand by my previous statements about you proud DU posters.
No matter how many tender feelings it hurts.
Mr. H. Fusion does not know that the WRC 9/11 attacks were inside jobs. Google “WTC 911 thermite”
free your mind.
Yep! GWB has gone AWOL on OBL. This is not even the most recent confirmation, because Alec Unit was actually disbanded late last year and only now announced.
Frank — You still haven’t figured it out, have you?