[quote]hedo wrote:
From Strategypage.com. Interesting.
COUNTER-TERRORISM: Leveraging Lawfare
June 22, 2005: Islamic terrorists have found powerful allies among leftist activists in the United States and Europe. These groups, which first appeared in the 1930s, providing support for the Soviet Union, evolved into ?progressive,? and pro-Soviet organizations (like the National Lawyers Guild) during the Cold War. They found that lawfare was a highly effective ideological weapon in a country like the United States. When the Cold War ended, and the Soviet Union disappeared, these organizations, and people like lawyers Michael Ratner and Ramsey Clark, maintained good relations with the remaining communist dictatorships, especially Cuba, and continued their war on America. The basic drill of these groups is right out of the old Soviet playbook. That is, using support for worthy causes like civil rights, clean government and environmentalism as camouflage, plus an exaggerated sense of righteousness, to pursue a program that seeks to make their own foreign policy, counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence policy, and enact laws in the United States via the courts, rather than the legislature. Often, the only goal is to simply oppose whatever the government position is. The Soviet Union may be dead, but many of its biggest fans are not. Oppose them and you are called a racist, fascist and worse.
Islamic terrorists have seen lawfare put restrictions on interrogations at Guantanamo, and make government officials reluctant to take chances in fighting, or stopping, Islamic terrorism. Despite record low civilian casualties, Islamic terrorists have plenty of allies willing to pursue false claims of deliberate attacks on civilians, and even journalists. Playing the legal system, as well as the media, leftist activists have provided Islamic terrorism valuable allies in America, the very country Islamic radicals are trying to destroy. Al Qaeda openly acknowledges this aid, and encourages its members to make false claims of torture and abuse, to make it easer for anti-American activists to build a case. The terrorists know that the media will jump all over anything that even appears as scandalous, and that the appearance of misbehavior is more important than the reality of it.
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Quotes from the transcript of “Meet the Press” from March 16, 2003, from Dick Cheney.
Host Tim Russert asked: whether we “would have to have several hundred thousand troops in Iraq for several years to maintain stability.”
Cheney’s reply: “I disagree.” “To suggest that we need several hundred thousand troops there after military operations cease, after the conflict ends, I don’t think is accurate. I think that’s an overstatement.”
Russert: “If your analysis is not correct, and we’re not treated as liberators, but as conquerors, and the Iraqi’s begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties?”
Cheney: “Well, I don’t think it’s likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. I’ve talked with a lot of Iraqi’s in the last several months myself, had them in the White House… The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come do that.”
So, Hedo, the insurgency isn’t because of inept planning by civilian politicians who chose to disregard expert military planners, Generals, analysts, but is because of the evil liberal media and people in the United States huh?
Hey, we’re paying the consequences (well not us but sons and daughters of America) but hey, guess what? We can blame our idiocy on someone else… We’ll blame it on us… on Americans.
Not on the fact that we didn’t count on an insurgency of this magnitude. Hey remember Vietnam and how twenty years later everyone was mad at the hippies for being mean to the vets. We will play on those emotions and say we are not realizing our vision because of evil liberals who are nothing more then modern day hippies spreading propaganda. Yes, yes, that’s what we’ll do, avoid responsibility at all costs… well hell we’ll even lie, heck lying is what got us into this mess in the first place maybe it can get us out of it as well.
Hey, what does it matter to us, we still have our stock in Haliburton and none of our family members are dead not even close not unless you count Jenna who drank too much at that upscale D.C. party that they love to go to. Hey, it’s not so bad after all, thank God for the evil liberal media what convenient scapegoats!