Any chance on a retraction?

On a separate note, when I heard the phrase McChrystalized in response prisoners and bases my mind immediately goes to Camp Nana, the prison camp he was in charge of that was involved in a torture scandal. I suppose Obama liked that on his resume, and that's why he got promoted

If it were for oil it would be way cheaper in blood and treasure to negotiate as Cheney was doing before 9/11 fell from the sky to bring misery on a worldwide scale.

Oil companies like dictators rather than messy things like democracies (see: Iraq — the Chinese and British Petroleum have gotten the oil contracts after we did all the heavy lifting. I almost think that some kind of deal was struck — China got the oil and we got our treasury bonds not pulled in)

Then I read that in March Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman had said that Afghanistan and Pakistan were the countries most dangerous to Israel. A little bit later those countries miraculously morphed into one country "Af-Pak"

So yet again, all warpaths lead to Israel. And of course, her deep ties to the military/ industrial/ terrorism complex. They are a hydra that needs to have its heads lopped off.

And if the individual is innocent of engaging in terrorist activities, how is his incarceration, mistreatment, and possible torture going to accomplish anything other than transforming him into an enemy willing to risk life and limb to exact revenge?

There must be something bizarre that occurs when a person assumes a position of political or military power over others. It's like all brainwave activity is shut down. Rational thought is extinguished. The possibility that initiating violence against other people might incur an equally violent reaction never occurs to these power mad individuals. I can't think of another explanation, because the decisions they make and the actions they take defy description.