I recently asked - not rhetorically - why the Pentagon was apparently purging the one guy who actually seemed to put some thought into what radical Islamists were saying.
The implication of having a bench that was weak on Islamic scholars was highlighted recently by Steve Emerson of the Investigative Project:
In a frightening and bizarre turn, the two chief agencies tapped with safeguarding America’s national security have started advertising in a publication that can only be described as objectively pro-terrorism.
The online edition of the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) … features recruiting advertisements seeking new agents for both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency.
WRMEA’s history of support for Hamas, other terrorist groups and individual terrorists is well known. Currently on the front page of its website, right in the center, is an homage, constituting of a collection of articles and hagiographies, to convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian.
That would be the Sami Al-Arian the FBI tried and failed to prosecute for terrorism-related charges last year. The same FBI that employed sham-marriage-for-citizenship perpetrating, Hizballah-linked Nadia Prouty as a special agent … until she was recruited by the CIA to work as a case officer.
Only institutions that have essentially no bleeping clue what they were doing when it comes to their adversary would launch such a campaign. In WWII beating the Japanese meant recruiting Americans of Japanese ancestry (after interning some of them). In the Cold War we propagated Soviet Studies programs at universities across the nation. Today the #2 in the Pentagon plumbs the Navy cabal for the first Arab he can find and anoints him his “close personal confidant.”
This is how wars are lost.
