Letters to the Editor
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water over the dam
Isn't this water that is alread over the dam. We are already in a war that the "military in the end will dislike". Are we now worried that the militarization of the CIA is going to get us in a lot more wars that the penatagon doesn't like? Who is going to fight all these wars?
The militarization of intelligence under Bush is likely to guarantee military solutions above other options. Uniformed officers trained to identity military threats and trends will take over economic and political intelligence for which they are untrained and often incapable, and their priorities will skew analysis. But the bias toward the military option will be one that the military in the end will dislike.
They are practically emptying the jails to find people to fight the wars we already have. How are we supposed to guard against the possibility that Bush and Cheney might militarize the government? Read warnings as such in Salon.com ?