I just took the time to read Robert Windrem and Richard Engle’s (NBC News reporters) article (http://bit.ly/7z8KDG) about the Jordanian suspect who’s now become a double-agent suspect responsible for killing the CIA officers. It appears that emerging evidence from the field indicates that this perpetrator of this Afghan attack was supposed to infiltrate al-Qaida.
How many of us mitigate violence risk and threat assessment as a cost of doing business?
How many of us really have to navigate time and space always mindful, always vigilant that violence risk or threat assessment is stalking us in every nook and cranny of our life? Then why is it that so many ordained experts surface on these matters Monday morning quarterbacking after action reviews?
Truth be told? This really annoys me. Even worse these press junket wannabe’s turn my stomach and make me wanna expose them for what they are.
Yeah, why say it. We all know what they’re all about don’t we?
Remember the pinhead tough guy who talks it up to us all after the threat of violence risk or threat assessment demand characteristics walk away with the bully who was in this pinhead’s face?
What makes my skin crawl more than this? It’s these pinheads with their hand out waiting to be paid for their pseudo expert junk science they give us after the bully’s walked away. Too bad he didn’t hear them and come back, get in their face, and try to kick their ass. Then we’ll see what kind of expert they really are, won’t we?
One thing I’ve learned from my training in clinical and forensic psychology is to respect and keep my enemies close as The Art of War tells us.
And another thing while I’m at it. I’ve been in battles and wars so to speak on the streets where I learned both trade craft and more importantly street craft. No BS out there; no pinhead tough guys. Try that you (Monday morning quarterbacks) pinhead tough guy dudes and yes you dudettes too, and then ask them, “How’s that working out for ya?”
When you really work this tee box, we know who really punches the shit out of the ball of the tee box don’t we? Those are the people who I humbled myself to.
And guess what? They really taught me a lot. More importantly, I am grateful for them taking the time to help keep me alive in the learning process. Thanks be to them. That’s who I listen to and respect as experts. You all know who I am talking about. Out of respect for you all, I don’t name names. Thanks none the less.
So the moral of my story to you all? Surface validity is just that. This ongoing investigation of the attack on the CIA and its “silent heroes, mighty patriots” remonstrates my commentary here.
Let me remind us all. Especially those of you out there who want to pass judgment inside and outside the Beltway, and yes you all inside and outside (feeders) the intelligence community, and of course last but not certainly least, after action Monday morning quarterbacks, there’s nothing like experiencing being “in the moment or in the zone” in the pocket using intuitive decision making “as the pagan felons rapidly advance.”
Come see me when you have fallen on the sword and lived to talk about it. Until then? Get a life. . .
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