[Peace-discuss] Lapbomber serves administration interests

[C. G. Estabrook]

"...When the US Congress on November 4 last year voted 334 to 36 to condemn the
Goldstone Report for its charge that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza how
many young Muslims exclaimed, that does it, and headed for their local Terrorist
recruiting office?

"...Back in 1962 Roberta Wohlstetter published Pearl Harbor: Warning and
Decision, a famous reconstruction of the indications and warning process
preceding the successful Japanese surprise attack of December 7, 1941. The book
was a disingenuous one since part of Wohlstetter’s agenda was to discredit the
fairly persuasive evidence that Roosevelt was aware of an impending Japanese
attack – though not its dimensions – and saw it as something that would finally
allow him to trump all opposition to the US’s entry into World War Two. But
Wohlstetter, excavating all the 'systemic' obstructions to the efficient use of
intelligence, did accurately conclude that 'We have to accept the fact of
uncertainty and learn to live with it'. It’s no solution to requisition bigger
and better x-ray machines at points of departure and entry, to expand watch
lists and computer data bases. Obama promised change, in his campaign and in
Cairo. So far as the Islamic world is concerned – he’s betrayed that promise.
That’s the systemic failure."

--Alexander Cockburn <http://www.counterpunch.org/>


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