Whizbang shares observations about author and former CIA man MIchael Scheuer.
...get a load of the following passage:
'For nearly a decade now, bin Laden has demonstrated patience, brilliant planning, managerial expertise, sound strategic and tactical sense, admirable character traits, eloquence, and focused, limited war aims. He has never, to my knowledge, behaved or spoken in a way that could be described as "irrational in the extreme."'
...The CIA previously gave Mr. Scheuer the important task of hunting down bin Laden; he was, in fact, the chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit. Instead of catching his man, it appears as if Mr. Scheuer got some sort of teenybopper crush on the king of al Qaeda, and thus offered the odious sentiment reproduced above.
A while ago I planned on reading Imperial Hubris but never got around to it. As time goes by chances I ever will, fade.
'He has never, to my knowledge, behaved or spoken in a way that could be described asirrational in the extreme."'
Is that counting the murder of 3000 people?
Posted by: Bandit | May 01, 2006 at 02:55 PM