I honestly don’t know where you get the information to back up your false claims. I am surprised you would insult the Navy SEALS for instance and forgo all of the work they have accomplished by stating that taking out three pirates and rescuing the captain was their biggest feat as of late. 

From the vast amount of comments to your postings, I can see that my presence is a much needed boost to your readership. Although I highly doubt readers stick around after perusing your wishy washy rants. 

Even public schools have uniforms these days. Perhaps you should do a little more research before you assume that Muslim=terroris. Nobody that I ever saw equated Catholic to IRA when that group was terrorizing Britain and Ireland. Freedom of religion includes all of them, not just the ones that you understand.

For some reason, as I read this post I thought of Dr. Strangelove and the major who decided it was time to nuke all the commies. He said they were stealing “our precious bodily fluids”. It’s so bizarre he would mention ten years of US efforts in Columbia and site one operation which was successful. Are we going to wait another ten years before we see more progress?

Saudi Arabia has been funding terrorist groups for years yet, to my knowledge, the US military has never been involved in an operation on the ground there. Bush/Cheney wanted to sell fighter jets to the Saudis, but the deal fell through. However I believe they purchased some from Britain.

After 9/11 our government had plenty of help from all over the world tracing the money used to finance terrorist groups. Germany, Spain, Britain and some ME countries used police methods to track, arrest and try terrorists. When our government invaded Iraq, we lost the support and respect in many parts of the world.

This bull-headed militaristic approach is getting us no where. I don’t know about the Philippines, but Indonesia seems to be doing a fair job of controlling the radicals in that country.

9/11 was bad, maybe worse than even Bin Laden dreamed it would be, but the aftermath was worse than it should have been because we followed the cowboy into an unnecessary war.

Then civil unrest.

Then bad hair days.

Then Al Bore lectures.

Not my intention to defend Mr. Johnson which would be above my pay grade on this topic.

Mr. Johnson’s points went over the head of this poster as said right of the bat that he was not dissin anyone but offered respectfully word response.

It strikes me as odd that a person who claims to have 20 under their belt running ops might add to the discourse instead of flapping his jaw.

It strikes me at times, that the universe of common sense applies to all disciplines.I will listen and learn.

Nothing in the law, rules of the abyss or blogs says you must act like an AMERICAN and allow ALL free speech on your own blog. But it’s damn refreshing to see it there. Can’t wait for Larry’s response although TEAKS defense was nice.

I don’t spend enough time here to know all of the “characters” that blog here regularly and/or frequently so I may just be spitting in the wind.

And how is the troll situation these days? I mean it seems pretty mild. Are they hiding under their blankies cuz THE ONE has abandoned them in their Dreams of Nirvana? sniff sniff po po sheeple people

heeheehahahoho!

Johnson also criticized the military and intelligence bureaucracies, saying they were “desperate to find an enemy to justify budget growth.”

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Covert Operator, if you have such depth explain why you say Mr. Johnson “never ran an op”, which is contrary to his bio?

He managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents throughout the world and he helped organize and direct the US Government’s debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

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One point you do not address is the “war footing” Mr. Johnson writes about. You can have all the “kenetics” you can stomach and all the un-intended consequences that come with it, but it is a questionable exerside if the intel sucks. No?

I thought I might inquire of you, if in your experience bad intel created obstacles for your mission objectives?

Or in un-classified terms how would you go about;

start fixing the lingering problems in mounting the full force and power of the United States against terrorists

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deter tacit and active support for violent extremist organizations where the government is either unwilling or unable to remove terrorist sanctuaries

Pakistan? How is a hellfire missle “indirect”?

Is it not violent?

Disrupting violent extremist organizations has had a powerful impact in Iraq, and we are seeing a dramatic reduction of al-Qaeda’s capability there.

True?