I'm posting up a couple of links here and here about the ongoing war of words (or plans as it were) regarding what the US should do about Iran's (ghostly) nuclear program. The Reynolds/ Hewitt plan calls for "...should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and Iranian atomic scientists" Nothing new (in fact I do believe that smaller Black Op units are the army of the future, if for no other reason that modern technology has made the individual warrior more deadly, and Black Op missions lead to lower body counts (the "if you're going to drive drunk best to put you in a Mini Cooper and strap yourself in" ideology)), but the debate is now being phrased as the battle for modern culture referances. As Yglesias succinctly puts it:
"American agents are infiltrating Iran killing Iranian scientists and religious leaders and none of them get caught. How? Are there really dozens of Farsi-speaking ninjas working for the CIA? I was going to compare this to a fun-but-stupid movie like The Bourne Identity but the point of that movie (and its sequal) is actually that if you somehow did build a hyper-competent utterly secret government agency it would likely become a cesspool of corruption and abuses of power."
The sad thing is that the influence of the fictional counter-intellegence/ super-spy really does affect our judgement as Americans, and it's alot less liberal an influence than the Right wants us to believe.
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