Re: Obama Undermines Mubarak; Says Nothing About L
Sam I think that's a wildly an unlikely scenario.
I think BO is less sympathetic to Israel. I also believe BO and his administration had not been planning for any changes like this in the Mid East. They were totally caught off guard. The CIA has been routinely failing us since the Clinton Admin and needs some major house cleaning. Its become a political machine and a giant Washington Bureaucracy that needs fresh leadership top to bottom.
If you get a chance watch PBS' Frontline documentary called "The Man Who Knew". It was about a CIA agent who was certain after 1993 that Al-Qaeda would go after the World Trade Center again. He was instrumental in connecting the dots to Al Qaeda with the African embassy bombings and other terroist actions in the 90s. He was good at what he did but he wasn't a political animal and made enemies along the way. He was eventually fired or forced into retirement and actually ended up getting a job as head of security at WTC about a year before 9/11. The night before 9/11 he had dinner with a friend and told him he was certain that Al Qaeda was about to do something big soon. He could sense it. He died in one of the towers as it collapsed. They found him buried in the rubble.
When with the CIA Frontline's investigation discovered he had connected the dots to a man captured in Yemen who ended up flying in one of the jets that crashed into the WTC to Al Qaeda. Once he stopped working for the CIA, that man was released and allowed to live fight another day.
It is one example of the top heavy CIA. They failed the Clinton Admin with the Al Qaeda attacks throughout the 90s, they failed the Bush Admin with WMDs and they failed the Obama Admin with the conditions on the ground in the Mid East. Therefore Obama has looked unprepared to deal with the rapid changes taking place there. He has the deer in the headlight look.
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