Oxy-Morons in Military Intelligence

A number of years ago I watched an interview with a high ranking CIA official commenting on Russia's war in Afghanistan. He said he saw this as an opportunity to give Russia its own Vietnam experience. The CIA trained and armed Mujaheddin 'freedom fighters' in guerrilla warfare against the Russians. This short-sighted approach, devoid of any serious consideration of who they are really dealing with and its ramifications is characteristic of our intelligence community and our policymakers. Consider what the US has effectively done. We have trained radical Islamists, who hate western ideals, hate America, who would kill anyone standing in their way on the path to world domination, how to use terror tactics against a superior force. We have armed them, trained them with taxpayer funds without considering the long-term consequences. These same fighters turn their weapons and terror upon America (anybody remember 9-11?) and throughout the Middle East and Europe.


The US took down a strong Iraq which kept its extremists in check; an Iraq which served as a counterbalance to the Iranian hegemony in the region. The US effectively destabilized the region. In its place, US withdrawal from an unstable region allowed Jihadists in ISIS to massacre Christians, destroy holy sites, strip freedoms from women and minorities, and create a reign of terror.

The US send billions of dollars in aid and arms to countries who pray for Americas destruction. And we criticize the only country that has the balls to fight terrorists head-on. You just have to wonder how these policymakers have gotten to where they are today and where on earth is our intelligence community's intelligence.

Do No Harm

Welcome to the golden rule of doctoring applied with blind ignorance and arrogance. By now I guess you would have heard of the brilliant move to transfer two Ebola- infected US citizens back here for treatment. Bravo, now we can risk spreading it further, we can risk the lives of others to unrealistically save two doomed people.


Did anyone consider shipping the 'treatments' to the infected area? Let's say we treat these two unfortunates and prolong their lives 5 days of pain and suffering, is that 'do no harm'? Did anyone consider that viruses adapt and mutate? Perhaps and quite likely, as the virus is exposed to different challenges it will respond by mutating perhaps it will prolong its undetected stage thereby increasing the chances of transmission. Perhaps, it will become less virulent but more resilient such that it becomes a major disease so widespread that many suffer for long periods of time. What if it jumps to a new type host here with new fauna or insects? This new vector could further disseminate the disease. Isn't anybody afraid of transmission, dispersion, and escalation? Maybe it will become airborne. Doesn't anybody watch Planet of the Apes?!? There is a reason Hollywood exists, you know.

Sorry but if it was up to me, those with such deadly disease need to be quarantined and if they try to leave, they and the ravages they inadvertently plan on spreading, must be lethally stopped.