{"id":36955,"date":"2013-08-05T08:49:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36955"},"modified":"2013-08-05T08:49:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:49:11","slug":"embassy-closings-because-of-decimated-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36955","title":{"rendered":"Embassy closings because of “decimated” al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> reports that a score of US embassies were closed this weekend and the closures are expected to last through next weekend because of a high rate of “chatter” among suspected and known terrorists;<\/p>\n

Florida Republican Rep. Tom Rooney, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News that U.S. intelligence agents detected a \u201cvery specific\u201d threat and suggested they have known about it for at least several weeks.<\/p>\n

He was among several congressional lawmakers Sunday who said the threat was gleaned from so-called \u201cchatter\u201d from phone lines, computer outlets, websites and other communication outlets.<\/p>\n

Rooney also said the information is not what intelligence committee members \u201csee on our regular briefings.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I appreciate the need to protect our State Department employees, and I also understand the difficulty in making sense out of “chatter”, I’m not sure a broad and well-publicized closure out of fear is necessarily doing us any good in the eyes of the world. If terrorism is a process by which a smaller entity elicits a broad reaction for a larger entity, it appears that the “decimated” al Qaeda has won this round.<\/p>\n

How would I have reacted if I was the executive personage? I’m not sure. But I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have broadcast to the world for 72 consecutive hours that I was ordering employees into hiding from a nebulous threat. If nothing else, this reaction to threats have proven the ineffectiveness of the zombie-ninja-robot strategy of this administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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