Intelligence + "Hearts & Minds" Re: Body Count

billbartlett at dodo.com.au billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Sun Dec 8 15:04:27 PST 2002


At 6:50 PM -0500 7/12/02, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>If you want to apprehend Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, etc., the last thing that you want to do is to alienate the majority of Muslim and Arab populations in the world, by making war on Iraq, allowing Israel to continue occupation and attack Palestinians with impunity, using ethnic and religious profiling on Arabs and Muslims, and so on; and to lose capable analysts by sacking gay linguists when there is a dire shortage of translators and interpreters.

Therein lies the flaw with "draining the swamp". You eliminate not the mosquitos, who can breed in any little puddle, but the creatures who prey on mosquito larvae.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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