14 ordspråk av Steven Simon
Steven Simon
(Bush) has given them an excellent American target in Iraq but in the process has energized the jihad and given militants the kind of urban warfare experience that will raise the future threat to the United States exponentially.
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Bin Laden stopped using the satellite phone instantly. The United States lost its best chance to find him.
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If people weren't fighting each other or scrambling for resources or trying to clarify who does what, they could be doing more to make us safe.
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My initial reaction was maybe there is a connection here, ... But as we now know, the middleman who was caught in the sting operation is really in it for the money.
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The parallels to the run-up to war with Iraq are all too striking: remember that in May 2002 President Bush declared that there was 'no war plan on my desk' despite having actually spent months working on detailed plans for the Iraq invasion. Congress did not ask the hard questions then. It must not permit the administration to launch another war whose outcome cannot be known, or worse, known all too well.
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The U.S. is going to be applying some pretty awesome military technology,
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These communities can provide convenient cover,
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They can make hundreds of slices of each individual grain.
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They're the ones seen to be drawing American blood,
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We may be attacked by terrorists who receive their training in Iraq, or attacked by terrorists who were inspired, organized and trained by people who were in Iraq,
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We will have to try to help the Iraqis maintain order as best we can, certainly through the end of this administration.
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We would like to believe that the administration is not intent on starting another war, because a conflict with Iran could be even more damaging to our interests than the current struggle in Iraq has been.
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We're talking about a person with great integrity who played by the book and, as far as I know, never deviated from the rules.
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You need to find the middlemen first. Other middlemen will see this guy was the victim of a sting operation ... , and they're going to be less eager to go around the world trying to find people to buy these things.
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