[lit-ideas] Re: Radical Islam: The Primer
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- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:52:42 EST
(quick, what color is the most serious threat level?)
Teal. Followed secondarily by mauve.
Julie Krueger
preferring azure and lapis
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Radical Islam: The
Primer Date: 1/9/2007 7:35:07 A.M. Central Standard Time From:
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John, my original premise of having an office dealing with ideological and
informational warfare instead of Homeland Security is based on my belief that
the DHS was a mistake from the start. It added another black hole in the
yawning bureaucracy of the intelligence/security/law enforcement alphabet
soup.
They've given us insipid color coded warning systems (quick, what color is
the most serious threat level?) and absurd advice (duct tape, anyone) with
little to trumpet as accomplishments.
So instead of fixing the problems of information flow between, say, CIA and
FBI the big government urge of the Bush administration was to create another
Cabinet level department that we'll never get rid of. So of course in my
fantasy the alternative office would be handled better and do a thorough job of
informing the American public about the threat we now face.
Brian
Birmingham
On Jan 8, 2007, at 6:25 PM, John McCreery wrote:
What if, instead of an Office of Homeland Security, the president had
created an official post that developed a strategy for countering Islamism on
the
ideological front?
Why are these posed as alternatives?
Surely we can agree that both homeland security and presenting attractive
alternatives to people inclined to Islamism are worthy goals.
The problem is that if the implementation of ideological warfare were as
stupidly clumsy and as big a threat to basic liberties as OHS already is, it,
too, would provide little more than more evidence that Republicans have good
reason to fear big government. They don't have a clue how to run one.
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