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The Obama Borg
In Star Trek lore, the Borg was a collective of servile drone operatives that sought to assimilate other species into its "hive mind."Personally I prefer "goodlife",but VDH wields a mean allegory. Something akin to that creepy groupthink arose when the Obama administration took power and sought to reformulate the so-called war on terror. Almost immediately, Obama operatives suggested that radical Islamists were no more likely than any other group to commit acts of terrorism. In fact, the very idea of terrorism -- not to mention a war against it -- was supposedly a Bush-administration construct unfairly aimed at Muslims. The result has been that ever since 2009, various members of the administration collective have sought, each according to his station, to bring us into the network of not associating Islamism with terror. And the Borg have certainly been diverse, as all sorts of political appointees, opportunists, and career officers plugged themselves into the hive. Obama may have killed ten times as many suspected Muslim terrorists by drone as did Bush, but we were to assume that the fact that there were no Christian, Jewish, or Buddhist victims of Hellfire missiles was irrelevant. Various members of the Defense Department soon were plugged into the new narrative of "this administration" and, as good automatons, were eager to spread the Borg directives. A memo sent by the Defense Department's security office to Pentagon staff members read, "This administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror.' Please use 'Overseas Contingency Operation.'" The hive thinking quickly spread throughout the Obama administration's intelligence apparat, as even those who once worked for George W. Bush and, in fact, had been deeply embedded in the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism efforts were drawn into the Borg -- quite willingly and for careerist reasons. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-05-04 |
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