Thursday, May 05, 2005

At Least Someone at CIA Knows What Needs to be Done

I'm glad to see that someone in-charge at the CIA has his head screwed-on right.


".... But in the days that followed the worst terror attack on U.S. soil, Schroen said his boss at the CIA also told him and his deputy in no uncertain terms to kill the al Qaeda leadership.

"What he said [was], 'I would like to see the head of bin Laden delivered back to me in a heavy cardboard box filled with dry ice, and I will take that down and show the president. And the rest of the lieutenants, you can put their heads on pikes'," Schroen told Reuters in an interview.

He was quoting Cofer Black, then the director of the CIA's counterterrorist center. "....


We should have an informal rule-of-engagement that when the United States is provoked to the point where we send in the Military, there's no cushy exile in Paris for the loser; that there is a personal price to be paid, in-full-measure. The same applies to Saddam, and it should have been enforced in Gulf War-1 as the price of Peace.

The skulls of our enemies should be used as head-table candy-dishes at White House State Dinners as a warning and reminder "...no better friend, no worse enemy". Barbaric? Well, it might help keep the barbarians in-line.

"...Jelly bean, Mr. Prime Minister?"