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So far, so good, but there is a built in future menace in what is being said of this attack program. It is that an absence of future attacks is contingent on an absence of supposed future chemical attacks. Therefore it is easy to see that whenever the rebels/jihadis want the government attacked they can stage manage more chemical attacks. IMO if that occurs there would be an inevitable escalation of targeting until the core combat assets of the R+6 are the targets. Sic Semper Tyrannis Not a bad outcome, but ... (editorial comment)Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was
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So far, so good, but there is a built in future menace in what is being said of this attack program. It is that an absence of future attacks is contingent on an absence of supposed future chemical attacks. Therefore it is easy to see that whenever the rebels/jihadis want the government attacked they can stage manage more chemical attacks. IMO if that occurs there would be an inevitable escalation of targeting until the core combat assets of the R+6 are the targets. Sic Semper Tyrannis Not a bad outcome, but ... (editorial comment)Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was
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So far, so good, but there is a built in future menace in what is being said of this attack program. It is that an absence of future attacks is contingent on an absence of supposed future chemical attacks.
Therefore it is easy to see that whenever the rebels/jihadis want the government attacked they can stage manage more chemical attacks.
IMO if that occurs there would be an inevitable escalation of targeting until the core combat assets of the R+6 are the targets.Sic Semper Tyrannis
Not a bad outcome, but ... (editorial comment)
Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.)
At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence Estimates. From 1992 to 1994, all the U.S. military attachés worldwide reported to him. During that period, he also briefed President George H. W. Bush at the White House, as he had during Operation Desert Storm.
He was also the head of intelligence analysis for the Middle East for seven or eight years at that institution. He was the head of all the Middle East and South Asia analysis in DIA for counter-terrorism for seven years. For his service in the DIA, Lang received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive. — Wikipedia