Intelligence vs. bombing




Dear Friends,

Let's try to put together some of the pieces we have gained 
access to. First of all, it seems clear that our intelligence 
services failed miserably at exploiting the inate fractions 
in the fundamentalist movement. Secondly, American airpower 
is useless against that movement because it is diffuse, ad 
hoc in its structuring and based on "cells" distributed 
throughout the world that are well imbeded in their countries 
of residence. Thirdly, the entire *religious* structure is 
devoted to demonstrating to the American people that it can 
hit them at anytime and anywhere with devastating blows. 
Lastly, all our retaliatory blows-- now and in the future-- 
invariably fall on noncombatants, enflaming the Moslems all 
over the world to come closer-- where they will be more 
receptive-- to the idea of passively or actively (as a martyr 
for Allah, work to prove to the world America's vunerability.

None of this could be possible without the "fascilitating" 
labors of Mullahs as diplomats and negotiators between 
fratricidal Moslem sects and nationalities. The TRANS-
nationalization of Moslem Fundamentalism has long been 
obvious. But it width, depth and strength in the Moslem 
communities all over the world was grossly underestimated. 
Perhaps we will now realize that it is possible for one in 
a hundred Moslem youths to become a martyr for Allah. That 
makes for very many cells. But cells are outgrowths of 
religious self-focusing. It should be possible therefore 
to do some polarization of our own, finding those Moslem 
Americans who will help save THEI, as well as our, country 
from terrorism. Certainly we should be able to recruit as 
wideely and as deeply as binLaden. While we don't ask for 
suicidal action we do demand accurate and useful information. 
Therefore, we require even less skills than the cells 
require of the martyrs.We can, therefore, expect results 
right away. This kind of going to get and bringing back 
intelligence about the cells in our country will make very 
clear which Moslem Americans stand with America and which 
stand with terrorism. We cannot tolerate a "neutral" position. 
But, we should be ready to greatly reward our TRUE "friends" 
who prove themselves by providing authorities with useful 
information and severly punish those "enemies" that obstruct 
our effort or claim to be neutral while helping the terrorist 
cells. We know quite well who the Moslems are. The rest is up 
to them. We must let them choose. If they chose against us 
then they must realize that by not reponding to their country's
call they are fair game for investigation and observation as 
POtential allies and agents of the terrorists. 

But I consider the wild dragnet by which the Atorney General's 
office has been detaining Moslems an outrage. It is as 
brainless as the dropping of VW bug-like bombs on Afghanistan. 
If there was any chance that destruction of the Taliban 
would destroy the terrorist networks I would be all for it. 
But in fact they only polarize Moslems who otherwise might 
side with us because we represent the future by contradicting 
Sharia and separating Church and State. As we have seen with 
Right to Life people, it is hard to get faithful believers who 
think that some practice is a moral crime-- thus murder-- to 
accept the legalistic "right to choose." Moral right is 
invariably, in the eyes of the pious, higher than personal 
right to choose. If to them freedom to choose to murder a 
fetus is the same as freedom to murder a person, one cannot 
expect them to be tolerant of the arbortion rights people. 
Similarly, if we place Moslems in a position of choosing to 
help us murder what, for better or worse, they consider holy 
men, then we force them to support these men no matter what 
they do on moral grounds. We must, instead ask them to help 
us find the killers in their midst specifically so that we 
may bring them to justice. Blowing up Afghani toiwns and 
helping thugs take over will only polarize them against what
they consider an immoral act.

Our bombing is NOT designed to bring binLaden to justice. 
It has been accepted that when we are close to capturing 
him he will blow himself to bits, becoming a sort of Moslem 
"Zappata lives" legend. And destroying the Taliban will not 
solve the problem either, since ALL MOSLEM STATES-- especially 
our Moslem "allies"-- have and will support continued Moslem 
fundamentalist "fatwas" against us.

When Pres. Bush asked us to be patient, he should have asked 
us to give him time to retool our intelligence assets so that 
they can worm into the cracks in the Mosle, terrorist dung to 
fragment it from within, thus saving the American people from 
their cells in the US. Instead he deflected the mission to a 
show trial by fire, bombong the hell out of a helpless country 
already fragmented into bandit gangs and theiving tribes. We 
sought to destabilize chaos at a cost of billions of dollars, 
now that every cent counts. Instead, we should have worked 
quietly to pick up the garbbage piece by piece, there where 
it is strewened-- THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST, especially amongst 
our "allies." At the same time we should have given all our 
Moslem Americans a chance to prove whether they are Moslems 
of America or Moslems in America by how much they assist the 
national effort at dienabling the terrorist cells. Now we ask 
them to endorse the pulverization of one group of Moslems in 
one country as our "enemy" while paying off other groups of 
Moslems as our "allies" in other countries, even though BOTH 
HELPED alQaeda EQUALLY AT THE VERY LEAST. 

Had America worked alone, using the quietly accumulated 
intelligence assets to pick up the garbbage, it would not 
have sought to buy support from binLaden's benefactors. But 
now we call these accessories to murder allies because they 
DO NOT codemn our useless and wasteful bombong of Afghanistan.

Please think it through and tell your President that you don't 
want DUMB airpower (that has no idea what it is bombing) to be 
passed off as a substitute for SMART intelligence that works 
quietly, precisely and effectively. We americans know that our 
intelliegence was crippled by Mr. Clinton's Administration. We 
are, therefore, patient waiting for results. But we will not 
tolerate perpetuating our nation's victimization with a quick-fix 
that totally discredits our capacity to deter.

Daniel E. Teodoru