I always thought the whole Terrorism threat level system, with its Christmas tree colors, was nonsense.
What's my 85 year old granny supposed to do with this alarming information blared out by the government?
What am I supposed to do with it? Go out and start shooting suspicious looking people? I wonder how many paranoiacs and chronic worriers this stupid systems has pushed over the edge...
Congressional Testimony Nonsense
Ronald Baily at Reason points to the uselessness of congressional testimony involving intelligence officials telling us that bad people are out there and they want to kill us...
OK, here's my problem. Of what possible use is this kind of testimony? It does no good for public safety because doesn't tell Americans what kind of attack they should be looking out for; it just sows generalized angst. Now why would federal security bureaucrats want to increase public anxiety?What We Really Need
(1) Call me cynical, but one possibility is that the heads of the various security agencies are trying to protect their budgets by scaring senators and public. More fear = more money.
(2) Or it's a cover-their-behinds move [...]
I want an anonymous, silent intelligence Agency That Shall Not Be Named. A combination of Mossad competency and cold-blooded KGB brutality. I want an agency full of Odd Jobs who can cut the head off of a statue with a steel-brimmed bowler hat.
Mullah Killed by Exploding Kebab
Forget the niceties. Did intel find something actionable, but prosecuting the perps will be tricky? Kill them. I want to see suspicious people around the world dying from mysterious poisonings, exploding cigarettes and unexplained car crashes.
"The World" can point its grubby little fingers our way all it wants, we'll just shrug our shoulders and go "meh."
So let's get to work terrorizing the terrorists, and stop scaring granny with red alerts...
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I'm with you, Silver. Just get the damn job done, and to hell with all of this Mr. Nice Guy stuff.
Gimme an Odd Job or two anyday, or a battalion or two of ninjas would work.
Side note: do you ever wonder who puts the gas in those black helicopters?
I'm just sayin'...
Fredd and Kurt, exactly. Omit the alerts it is a waste of time and it just causes people to go into panic mode.
Get the job done and get it done fast and right. Forget about the legalities.
Now, if we had an agency like that, and they were good...
wouldn't you be wondering why we didn't have an agency like that...
Bwah Ha Ha Ha HA!
Just wishful dreaming on my part... but I'm with you, screw winning hearts and minds, the average Iraqi or Afghan ought to be of the mindset that he takes one look at the insurgent sneaking into his village, cast his eyes nervously skyward, and pops a cap in his ass while muttering screw that!
Count me in. But first hit Cairo, Bagdad, Tehran, Damascus, Beirut, Tripoli, Islamabad along with all of both Yemen and Somalia with limited strategic nuclear strikes.
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