Mark A. Kilmer's Political Annotation

"Anonymous" Favors Preemption

This is a followup on an earlier post, with the exact quote.

"Anonymous" is an active CIA official who wrote a book called Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. The book trashes the CIA "bureaucrats" and the tactics in the war on terror, and he talked to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week this morning.

He was talking to Steph about al Qaeda when he said

"What there was, I think, was a lack of moral courage or bureaucratic courage to say, 'This isn't the best intelligence in the world, but it's the best we're likely to get. And if we don't take this action, we're going to lose a lot of Americans."

THAT, my friends, is preemption. It is what the President did when making the call to invade Iraq. Anonymous is in essence praising the President for invading Iraq when he did and criticizing those who did not support the action as cowards.

Anonymous said some other things I want to address, but not in this post. Anonymous backs preemption.


AND BTW, Anonymous appeared in silhouette on Steph's show, but he looked an awful lot like Joe Klein to me.

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