Posted on Mar 26, 2020
The Coronavirus Is the Worst Intelligence Failure in U.S. History
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Once again, what was the government (specifically Congress and a significant portion of the State and Justice Departments) doing in January and February at the expense of all other things?
That's right. Impeachment.
Just think how fucked up the government response would be right now if they had succeeded in removing the President and VP Pence would have to be in charge with likely no replacement VP confirmed. Great job, Congress.
Nor am I remotely willing to accept that this is the worst intelligence failure in my lifetime, much less US history.
In my lifetime, in no particular order -
1. The Marine Barracks bombing in Beiruit.
2. The surprise invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets.
3. 9/11
4. The rise of ISIS
5. The fall of the Shah of Iran
6. The Arab Spring
7. Khobar Towers
8. Repeated cyber attacks
9. Lead up to OIF
10. The absolute debacle of Libya's decent into civil war
11. The worse debacle of Syria's decent into civil war
12. The Russian seizure of Dombass and annexation of Crimea
And that is just off the top of my head.
Predating my lifetime, to name a few:
1. The Tet Offensive.
2. The invasion of south Korea by the North, then later China's intervention
3. Pearl Harbor.
4. The Rosenbergs stealing the plans for the hydrogen bomb
5. Kasserine Pass
6. The Battle of the Bulge
Hyperbole won't get us to a solution. Right now we just need solutions. There will be plenty of time for post-mortems afterwards.
That's right. Impeachment.
Just think how fucked up the government response would be right now if they had succeeded in removing the President and VP Pence would have to be in charge with likely no replacement VP confirmed. Great job, Congress.
Nor am I remotely willing to accept that this is the worst intelligence failure in my lifetime, much less US history.
In my lifetime, in no particular order -
1. The Marine Barracks bombing in Beiruit.
2. The surprise invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets.
3. 9/11
4. The rise of ISIS
5. The fall of the Shah of Iran
6. The Arab Spring
7. Khobar Towers
8. Repeated cyber attacks
9. Lead up to OIF
10. The absolute debacle of Libya's decent into civil war
11. The worse debacle of Syria's decent into civil war
12. The Russian seizure of Dombass and annexation of Crimea
And that is just off the top of my head.
Predating my lifetime, to name a few:
1. The Tet Offensive.
2. The invasion of south Korea by the North, then later China's intervention
3. Pearl Harbor.
4. The Rosenbergs stealing the plans for the hydrogen bomb
5. Kasserine Pass
6. The Battle of the Bulge
Hyperbole won't get us to a solution. Right now we just need solutions. There will be plenty of time for post-mortems afterwards.
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Sanchez- where are all the additional medical supplies from Obama’s pandemic where 12,000 Americans died? Let us know.
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LTC (Join to see)
SSgt William Quinn thanks. I read that. Here is one for you to see how we just don’t learn from past events:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168221/
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I can't believe someone put this BS on paper and then someone else thought enough of it to read and then further post this garbage.
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Sgt John Steinmeier
Member the guy that would make stupid comments, and ask questions at the end of re-occurring training like EoR and Sexual Harassment drawing them out longer than they needed to be....that's the guy who posted this.
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