Subject: about Benghazi (Libya)
"Focusing on Little Bad Guys and Missing Big Pictures (The National Interest)," or "Misreading Benghazi and Terrorism (Consortium News)," by Georgetown and Brookings Institute nonresident Senior Fellow Paul R. Pillar (Wikipedia link), retired CIA (1977 to 2005), June 18, 2014
"The general tendency that this case illustrates, beyond the partisan motivations that have sustained the ridiculously prolonged preoccupation with this one incident, is a fixation on the malevolent intentions, real or sometimes imagined, of individual evil-doers who play leading roles in either groups or states.*
[emphasis added--LAS]
"This fixation is at the expense of attention to broader patterns of public sentiment or political culture (and yes, sometimes even reactions to scurrilous videos) that have much more to do with where security problems will arise and where U.S. interests will be threatened."
Think slow here, I suggest.
Larry
* I wonder whether Prof. Pillar might have the Koch brothers in mind among the "individual evil-doers who play leading roles in either groups or states [or both]" [and upon whom some might be said to be fixated]. :-7
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"Focusing on Little Bad Guys and Missing Big Pictures (The National Interest)," or "Misreading Benghazi and Terrorism (Consortium News)," by Georgetown and Brookings Institute nonresident Senior Fellow Paul R. Pillar (Wikipedia link), retired CIA (1977 to 2005), June 18, 2014
"The general tendency that this case illustrates, beyond the partisan motivations that have sustained the ridiculously prolonged preoccupation with this one incident, is a fixation on the malevolent intentions, real or sometimes imagined, of individual evil-doers who play leading roles in either groups or states.*
[emphasis added--LAS]
"This fixation is at the expense of attention to broader patterns of public sentiment or political culture (and yes, sometimes even reactions to scurrilous videos) that have much more to do with where security problems will arise and where U.S. interests will be threatened."
Think slow here, I suggest.
Larry
* I wonder whether Prof. Pillar might have the Koch brothers in mind among the "individual evil-doers who play leading roles in either groups or states [or both]" [and upon whom some might be said to be fixated]. :-7
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Larry at Blogspot "undisclosed recipients" email message archive, no logging in, no public comments
There is only one truly inalienable right that can’t be taken away by gods nor governments nor men, and that is the right to define yourself.--Jim Wright, retired US Navy Chief Warrant Officer, Stonekettle Station.
