"A common mistake among people is that they think bad guys are smart.It is true that our enemies have an enormous reservoir of stupidity to draw from. No question about that at all. I really don't think you can be a brutal thug without an Achilles heel of stupidity. But we all know that Richard Reid -- blockhead thug though he was -- just about downed a plane shortly after 9/11, don't we? Accidents like this could possibly even happen if we were not so weakened by lunatic political correctness as we are. But we are. And you probably don't see that either. Time to start paying attention. Please. I'm asking nicely. No kibitzing.
They aren’t for the most part. they don’t think very far ahead, they don’t know much outside of their narrow worlds, and they don’t have a helluva lot of interest in fixing that sort of knowledge gap.
“The terrorists know we’re monitoring banks.”
Well, no, they don’t. They might know, in general, that we do that sort of thing, but there’s a big tendency among assholes like that to assume that their particular choice of action is completely invulnerable to any sort of obvious counter-action.
The Times and the others are like someone standing behind a chess player and kibitzing.
“Oh, you’re going after his rook, then, so you can take out his queen. What are you getting mad for, it’s obvious to everyone.”"
And RTWT. You absolutely need to read the Katherine Graham quote. If that doesn't appeal to your sense of perspective then you're likely not part of the dozen...
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