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And now, ladies and gentleman, let's have a big hand for...Porter Goss!
Let me get this straight. We have an excellent idea where he is, but we haven't gone to get him because we believe in "fair play," international obligation and sovereignity? Was Goss on the Daily Show, standing in front of a green screen picture of Baghdad or Kabul when he said it? That would have been even funnnier.
'Have to find a way to work in a conventional world?' That sounds like pre-9/11 thinking. Can't we just demand that the country he is in turn him over, like with the Taliban? (Gee, if only we still had a deployable army that could make that credible.) Did we decide to drop that doctrine of "You're either with us or against us" and "no distinction" between terrorists and those who harbor them once it gave us a pretext to take out Saddam? I must have missed that announcement.
I'm about done with such administration puffery. The next time I hear someone say they have an excellent idea where Osama is, I want it to be at the beginning of a statement announcing that he's being held in a US military prison, though a body bag at Dover AFB would be acceptable in his case.
I don't think it takes much reading between the lines to guess that he's talking about Pakistan, and the sad reality is we can't demand they turn him over, or go and get him ourselves, without sparking an anti-American Islamic revolution there, something not recommended in countries with nuclear arsenals. All of which just goes to show how simplistic the Bush doctrine has been from the beginning.
NEW YORK - The director of the CIA says he has an "excellent idea" where Osama bin Laden is hiding, but that the United States' respect for sovereign nations makes it more difficult to capture the al-Qaida chief.Hey, you've been a great audience. I'll be here all week! Good night!
In an interview with Time for the magazine's June 27 issue, Porter Goss was asked about the progress of the hunt for bin Laden.
"When you go to the question of dealing with sanctuaries in sovereign states, you're dealing with a problem of our sense of international obligation, fair play," Goss said. "We have to find a way to work in a conventional world in unconventional ways."
Asked whether that meant he knew where bin Laden is, Goss responded: "I have an excellent idea where he is. What's the next question?"
Let me get this straight. We have an excellent idea where he is, but we haven't gone to get him because we believe in "fair play," international obligation and sovereignity? Was Goss on the Daily Show, standing in front of a green screen picture of Baghdad or Kabul when he said it? That would have been even funnnier.
'Have to find a way to work in a conventional world?' That sounds like pre-9/11 thinking. Can't we just demand that the country he is in turn him over, like with the Taliban? (Gee, if only we still had a deployable army that could make that credible.) Did we decide to drop that doctrine of "You're either with us or against us" and "no distinction" between terrorists and those who harbor them once it gave us a pretext to take out Saddam? I must have missed that announcement.
I'm about done with such administration puffery. The next time I hear someone say they have an excellent idea where Osama is, I want it to be at the beginning of a statement announcing that he's being held in a US military prison, though a body bag at Dover AFB would be acceptable in his case.
I don't think it takes much reading between the lines to guess that he's talking about Pakistan, and the sad reality is we can't demand they turn him over, or go and get him ourselves, without sparking an anti-American Islamic revolution there, something not recommended in countries with nuclear arsenals. All of which just goes to show how simplistic the Bush doctrine has been from the beginning.
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