tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post8020401971272230739..comments2023-10-28T03:14:44.519-07:00Comments on Calhouns Can(n)ons: What's In A Word, Anyway? NewsstandGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04099049885765768069noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-50629991853729494922013-01-12T05:03:01.612-08:002013-01-12T05:03:01.612-08:00Alon. Think you'd enjoy "The Looming Tow...Alon. Think you'd enjoy "The Looming Tower." It really is effective in showing how needle-in-a-haystack this all is and how many close calls, those sickening moments when the good guys almost caught the bad guys, often missing my minutes. As for the lessons learned, I'm not sure anybody learns anything from anything. We just keep repeating the same blunders over and over. Churadogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701649330085709021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-6935712738839706662013-01-11T18:51:11.001-08:002013-01-11T18:51:11.001-08:00How is the Movie?
I am more concerned with the los...How is the Movie?<br />I am more concerned with the loss of the other substantial lessons of Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Russian ruled Afghanistan, Los Osos, Vietnam, and Iraq than I am with the specific effectiveness of torture techniques (or the moral implications of their use). Terrorist Cells operate as cells for a reason, so that individuals rarely access that much. <br />I haven't read the looming tower but noticed it's publication date as '07. I see it has critical acclaim.<br />This book -http://www.amazon.com/bin-Laden-Man-Declared-America/dp/0761535810/ref=la_B001IOBL1Y_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357955062&sr=1-1<br />was first published two years before 9/11 and contains pretty much all of the background material noted in the 9/11 commission report. All of which was available and very predictable, and none of which had an "Iraq" involvement. It also makes it very clear that the existence of the anti terrorism group that was tracking Bin Ladin Prior to 9/11 was hanging by a budgetary thread. Years later, there was a specific Bush White house press release that stated that Bin Ladin was no longer in the Pakistan pashtun badlands area. An obvious lie. Ironically, they may had been correct, but he was only about a hundred miles southeast. Years after that -? The Carl Roveization of Valerie Plume.<br /><br />Realizing that in this democracy, a substantial group still think 9/11 had something to do with Iraq is torture enough for me.<br />Alon Perlmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155776897189144501noreply@blogger.com