We have these things called computers. They can quickly churn through a stack of e-mails and sort for various things. It turns out that they were mostly duplicates of emails the FBI already had.
Personally, from my rather limited view, the bad things we do in the Middle East seem most of the time to be done on behalf of our 'clients' in the area.
It's a fool's game, and the US is the fool, most of the time.
The best part is when the 'clients' then blame us for all the trouble we've caused, as we've pursued policy goals on their behalf that much of the time they won't even acknowledge complicity in.
I just don't understand why, after all these years, the people still invest the US with magical powers to make the bad things stop happening.
Maybe John Kerry has no cards to play. All of America's "allies" in the ME are seemingly on a binge of self-destruction, and so it must be America's job to stop them from continuing to self-destruct themselves.
Perhaps America needs to step out, not in. Staying in only seems to prolong the agony, and just gives America's allies excuses for their own bad behavior and then someone to blame after it all turns to S**t.
Giuliani indeed. He's really been going off the rails this whole election.
John W:
We have these things called computers. They can quickly churn through a stack of e-mails and sort for various things. It turns out that they were mostly duplicates of emails the FBI already had.
Edward Snowden did a little piece on this.
Personally, from my rather limited view, the bad things we do in the Middle East seem most of the time to be done on behalf of our 'clients' in the area.
It's a fool's game, and the US is the fool, most of the time.
The best part is when the 'clients' then blame us for all the trouble we've caused, as we've pursued policy goals on their behalf that much of the time they won't even acknowledge complicity in.
I just don't understand why, after all these years, the people still invest the US with magical powers to make the bad things stop happening.
Maybe John Kerry has no cards to play. All of America's "allies" in the ME are seemingly on a binge of self-destruction, and so it must be America's job to stop them from continuing to self-destruct themselves.
Perhaps America needs to step out, not in. Staying in only seems to prolong the agony, and just gives America's allies excuses for their own bad behavior and then someone to blame after it all turns to S**t.
I don't suppose anyone would think that Putin and Obama may have discussed something like this off-mike at their recent meeting?