{"id":59,"date":"2004-09-20T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=59"},"modified":"2004-09-20T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T00:00:13","slug":"when-intelligence-goes-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/09\/20\/when-intelligence-goes-south\/","title":{"rendered":"When intelligence goes south"},"content":{"rendered":"

“For an eyewitness account of one of the outrageous incidents in Iraq, have a look at the Guardian,<\/em>” writes IraqiPundit<\/a>.
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\nI’ll be honest. I don’t trust the Guardian<\/em> at all, really, but at the same time I do not doubt that the events are described<\/a> with reasonable accuracy.<\/p>\n

This is the human side of war. People make mistakes, prompting other people up the chain of command to make mistakes, and so on… until someone on the wrong end of explosive ordnance gets maimed or killed. It’s a tragedy, and it sobers me to consider this. This isn’t “American democracy,” as the author states; it’s a war against a enemy who will not, perhaps cannot, show its face.<\/p>\n

But what’s the alternative? Let the terrorists blow up Bradleys without reprisal? Embolden them for further action? Do we simply sit and wait for the terrorists to invade a school, a baseball game, or Wall Street, massacring dozens, hundreds, thousands before we act?<\/p>\n

Those who decry violent answers to such threats seem to conveniently ignore the first violence – that of terrorists perpetrating cowardly acts on those who are concerned first and foremost for the security of the average Iraqi citizen. The destroyed Bradley is hardly worth a mention in this piece; the author doesn’t deign to offer whether men were injured or killed within, nor any other details.<\/p>\n

Anyway… read the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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