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As soon as a writer mentions the CIA in conjunction with fighting the "terrorists", you know they're clueless or a shill. Standard Operating Mockingbird fare.
by cpr 8y ago
As soon as a writer mentions the CIA in conjunction with fighting the "terrorists", you know they're clueless or a shill. Standard Operating Mockingbird fare.
- some_account 8y agoIm just skipping all American articles about terrorism and how terrorists hate America because of the freedoms, and now America has to go bomb someone to make the world a better place. My iq drops 50 points from that garbage. We live in a world where people are so dumbed down or busy all the time that nobody even seem to reflect on the madness of this thinking.
- sjg007 8y agoIQ tests are based on pattern recognition and abstraction. So your comment being as meta as it is probably means your iq hasn’t dropped. I do understand that it’s a figure of speech in this case but to go more meta it is a lazy argument... perhaps indicative of low iq! Fun right?
- boomboomsubban 8y agoAs much as I hate the CIA and the War on Terror, the subject seemed involved in the hunt for Bin Laden and it seems accurate to call him a terrorist. The article was at least somewhat critical of the War on Terror, less ridiculous than I entered expecting it to be.
- jacquesm 8y agoSome interesting reading on this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_...
- boomboomsubban 8y agoNot really, it still seems like the CIA was searching for him in the 00's, and CIA connections wouldn't make him any less of a terrorist.
- John_KZ 8y agoWhen did this turn from a fact to an allegation? Jesus they really are rewriting history.
- boomboomsubban 8y agoAt what point was it presented to you with evidence? I also remember hearing this often around 2001, but I can't recall any specifics showing the link. Frankly, the CIA deserves the blame even if they didn't specifically assist Bin Laden. They certainly assisted many other people that were equally terrible, and their actions led to the instability that allowed such groups to flourish.
- pizza 8y agowell.... it's not like he was out of the spotlight, many years earlier than then 1993 newspaper profile of him.. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/anti-soviet-warrior-puts-his-army-on-the-road-to-peace-the-saudi-businessman-who-recruited-mujahedin-1465715.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/anti-soviet-warrior... a picture of the newspaper article itself for history's sake/ in case that link ceases to work in the future; https://i.imgur.com/HLndqdZ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/HLndqdZ.jpg
- boomboomsubban 8y agoHow does this show any link to the CIA? He was the son of a billionaire, I doubt he would need help from a spy agency to get a puff piece written on page ten.
- jacquesm 8y agoYou can see it happening right before your eyes. Quite interesting. F'ing scary too.
- diminoten 8y agoJust such soft slippers we get to wear, on our way down the stairs. I get how it's preferable to the boots our ancestors had to wear on their way up the stairs, but comments like yours make me wonder about that.
- matt4077 8y agoDid you miss the part where that writer wrote 4000 words savagely criticizing the “war on terror”?