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Should covert operations require more rather than less civilian oversight? |
| (- 5) An ethical issues-related viewpoint: Covert operations, for all intents and purposes, are almost identical to the modus operandi of organized crime. Military actions bear unfortunate resemblances to serial mass murder. Don't be fooled by the James Bond and John Wayne movies. If anything, we require extra civilian continuing oversight and control over these potential cancers, not less. We need maximum disclosure through national media. In the long run, real national security has to do with being a good neighbor in the world community. It involves the ability to produce valuable things that other peoples around the world want to voluntarily buy from us so that they come to respect our productive values and have more commerce with us. This is no different than the need to be a good neighbor in your own neighborhood. American foreign policy must never focus upon throwing our weight around, which in the long run tends to create more enemies than friends. Rather, the real business of America is to conduct open and fair business dealings. It involves the creation of innovative, quality products. American neo-con leaders have arrogantly cast aside this policy that worked so well for this country in the 19th century. The CIA and Mossad have been heavily involved in the global drug trade and other corrupt dealings that create the very enemies that American military forces are later sent in to suppress. The neo-cons are turning America into a garrison state, and as such America is headed for an imperial implosion very similar to the historical experience of the Spanish and Roman empires and former Soviet Union. Last, but not least, there is overwhelming evidence that dual-loyalist Zionist neo-cons and their Israeli compatriots staged 9-11 as an inside job to create the pretext for wars for Israel and the suppression of critics of Israel at home. Therefore America's real enemies are already inside the gates as foxes guarding the hen house. Their real goal is not the defense of freedom but rather a total coup de etat against the Constitution to serve their own interests. Time to focus on America's domestic problems rather than go abroad in search of bogus monsters to destroy. |
. . . | (+5) An opposing view: America is fully justified to use preventive aggression and regime change as conscious foreign policy tools. The world has become a very bad neighborhood filled with evil, terrorist leaders. They envy our freedoms. They are willing to risk American full-scale retaliation by killing freedom-loving Americans in sneak attacks. Therefore, we must smell evil-doer suspects where they hide behind bushes and hit them first before they can harm us. This is particularly true of countries such as Iraq and Iran that do not yet have nuclear weapons. It does not apply to a country such as North Korea that can already hit back with nukes. Unless America attacks potential evil-doers first who lack nuclear weapons, we must believe that they will eventually come over to America and battle us in our streets. Then they will be like Third World illegal immigrants who are already battling our police as a consequence of negligent border policies with Mexico. Rather than enforce immigration laws, the Establishment tells us that it is making us more secure by constricting our civil liberties under the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, National ID card, and other Orwellian legislation. To promote democratic values abroad, our leaders use "extraordinary rendition" and torture. There is strong evidence our government is also "saving" Americans from terror by killing them in false flag operations related to the JFK assassination, Oklahoma City bombing, and 9-11. It has also openly killed them at Ruby Ridge and Waco. We might conclude that the U.S. Government can kill its own citizens and constrict their civil liberties because unlike North Koreans, they lack nuclear weapons to defend themselves against their own government. Our government has even used mercenaries and active duty soldiers to confiscate privately owned firearms in New Orleans after the Katrina disaster, leaving citizens unable to defend themselves against looters. It has resorted to vote fraud in important elections. This is how our Establishment shows the world that it is firmly committed to defending human rights and fighting terrorism. The ways of the Federal government can be mysterious, to be sure, but nevertheless as good Americans we must keep the faith. It is not for us to question why. |
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