And you’re right, Greenwald was way too easy on the Bush administration (thanks for the lesson on irony by the way).

I would say so if you’re hitting major leaders with command and control, but the mob and al-qaeda are all just lines of succession and a hard wired program on accumulating resources it’s organized crime, you don’t need a manual. People kind of know what the goal is and the tactics and strategy are kind of obvious.

Killing the guy with the ideas makes sense, killing pawns, dupes and soldiers is probably a waste of time in this context. But then don’t be surprised when they get our guy. You can’t protect protect the king inside the concentric circles of security. Right now Bin Ladin is safer then President Obama. That’s unfortunate, but it’s hard to get agents through the layers of family relationships.

The recent suicide attack that killed many Al-Qaeda experts and CIA was a by-product of our preoccupation with the individual and the tactical device and not the engine of that drives Al Qaeda, our foreign policy mistakes. All the rest is a recruitment tool, they are all Jujitsu.

“Change you can ridicule”

“Change your diapers”

“Change you can convert to wooden nickels”

“Change my mind”

Anything I’m missing?

Smartass.