[Peace-discuss] Who's in, who's out

[C. G. Estabrook]

In the great war in Pakistan - I mean the war between the CIA and the Pentagon, 
who seem to be engaged in competitive killing of Asians to establish their 
respective brands (see "How the Pentagon Supervised Raymond Davis' Release and 
How the CIA Took Its Revenge" 
/<http://www.counterpunch.org/qadir03222011.html>/) - the CIA is looking like 
Charlie Sheen: "Winning!"

It is rumored that Leon Panetta, head of the CIA will become Defense Secretary 
in succession to Robert Gates, Bush/Obama's man. Panetta is a Democratic party 
apparatchik, chief of staff in the WH under Clinton, who at the CIA successfully 
fought off the attempt to reform the Company by placing it under the 
recently-created Director of National Intelligence.

Meanwhile, a more substantial rumor has that most political of generals, David 
Petraeus, becoming head of the CIA.  That may look like a win for the Pentagon, 
except that the "ass-kissing little chickenshit//" (as Petraeus was described by 
one of his former superiors, displaced by Petraeus) seems to be cordially hated 
by the uniformed cadre at the Pentagon, and his move to Langley may simply be an 
admission that he's playing for the other team (of course always really for Team 
Petraeus).

This seems to argue (as does the attack on Libya) that the foreign policy 
establishment is in charge, and the JCS in the Pentagon have lost another round. 
Those who've read Tim Weiner's/Legacy of Ashes/ can hardly think that this is a 
Good Thing.

    No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.
    We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
    When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
    And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live,
    And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
    At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
    Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too-
    Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out-
    And take upon 's the mystery of things,
    As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out,
    In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones
    That ebb and flow by th' moon.



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