Morning Joe Regular Accuses US Special Operations In Afghanistan Of 'High-Tech Murder On A Large Scale'
Left-wing Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs, a frequent Morning Joe guest, has accused US special operations forces of committing "high-tech murder on a large scale" for their targeted campaign of killing or capturing Al Qaeda Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
Sachs made his contemptible accusation on today's Morning Joe in the course of a discussion of the PBS Frontline documentary "Kill/Capture" on the JSOC operations. Stephen Grey, a producer of the documentary, was a guest.
View video after the jump.
JEFFREY SACHS: I know these countries from the ground, what these villages are like. People are hungry, they don't have employment, they don't have income. And the idea that you can murder your way to a successful society strikes me as very, very odd.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Well, but Dr. Sachs, the idea that you can develop a society that is still way, way behind in the Third World is naive as well.
SACHS: But I'm saying, the idea that this is going to be in some targeted way, high-tech murder on a large scale, that you're getting the right people. What are the right people in this sense? These are kids in villages.
NOTE: None of the Morning Joe panel members, consisting of Mika Brzezinksi, Mike Barnicle and Mark McKinnon [of 'No Labels'], made a peep of protest in response to Sachs' loathsome allegation.
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Flip flop much?
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 8:43am.
So the left accuses Obama of murder. Where are the cries of impeachment from the MSM?
He's a professer? Just more
Submitted by NC Cop on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 8:47am.
He's a professer? Just more proof that education doesn't necessarily make you intelligent.
Well cheer up, wack job proffesser
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 8:51am.
Looks like Osama's kin might file suit now you and fat a$$ed Moore should go share a bowl of soup.
Brainwashing 101 "perfesser" style............
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:05am.
As I was watching this with mouth agape and filled with cheerios......... I was wondering was the panels silence COMPLIANCE with the thoughts or they all KNEW that if they said anything they would have been hypocritical considering they bashed Boooooosh for doing this stuff OR they are so leg tingly over their hero Obambi doing SOMETHING GOOD, they are just ignoring the rest of LIFE and FACTS.....................
I still don't know................
Meeeeeka tried to make a point (I think) that we shouldn't be trying to change these losers as it is impossible to change them (I think).......
She has two things and two things only going for her and they "aint" brains and wisdom...........
Tomorama...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:21am.
What is perceived as a "dead end" policy in Afghanistan has been slammed from both the 'left' and the 'right' for quite some time on Morning Joe. And since he is the current CIC in charge of that policy, there has been no reluctance on the part of most of the panelists to criticize Obama for his role in it.
Jer
Another liberal point---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 7:02pm.
of view.
MD
Osama vs. Hitler
Submitted by adamsmith on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:11am.
What exactly is he accusing us of? There is no victory plan here which is what's aggravating to me. As far as Bin Laden's son goes, I have to agree with him that Osama was murdered. There was no "Capture/Kill" order, it was kill no matter what and destroy the evidence in 24 hours. I was thinking this morning what if the Russians had done that with Hitler? Would the US have been cheering Stalin or screaming out WHY? Osama should have been taken to Gitmo, waterboarded, then tried as a War Criminal in a U.S. Martial court, convicted and hanged like Saddam. Why did all this happen the way it did? Why hasn't anyone compared it with Hitler, which was a fairly comparative situation? This thing has smelled to me from the beginning. Rush said yesterday that he "doesn't agree with them", but a lot of U.S. servicemen have been emailing in saying the whole thing is a fraud. Why would Rush bring it up if it had no merit? Of course he denied a conspiracy could have taken place. Maybe he just wanted to get people wondering. I'm not a conspiracy nut, but taking the Hitler analogy, something with all this was never right.
Just noticed.....
Submitted by adamsmith on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 12:17pm.
Isn't this the same Jeffrey Sachs that works for George Soros, the guy that's supposed to collect .07% of our GNP each year and redistribute our money to poor countries via the U.N.? Scratch the surface and there's always another connection to President George Soros....
Typical Liberal idiocy.
Submitted by acaiguana on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:13am.
First, the meme was under Bush "Why haven't you found Bin Laden?
Then their 'Dear Leader' has Bin Laden killed.
Now it is Murder.
Juan Williams is calling it murder too.
Great Americans all.
And consistent as a slowing top spinning its way into the dirt.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
Ok Libs go impeach the Prez for murder
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:19am.
Let's not be hypocrites.
Murder, really?
Submitted by dreamsincolor on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:45am.
So did we murder Bin Laden? No, of course not. We would never do such a thing.
It was a legal thing, we found him to be in breech of his existence contract, and given our apparent authority in the matter, we terminated said contract. With prejudice. No biggie.
[OUR lawyers are worse than Peter Blunt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lURHNLrwtc ]
Call it what you want.
Submitted by johnsonl on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:49am.
Murder is defined as the unlawful killing of another human being.
The armed forces are doing their jobs. Wars are won by killing the other side until they surrender or die. Wars can end when one or both sides stop fighting. It all depends on what each side's goal is. Don't whine because our armed forces are good at what they do.
The "professor" needs to get
Submitted by bassndude on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:53am.
The "professor" needs to get out more. Perhaps he should go back to school. He should know by now that the military's sole purpose is to free souls from their physical restraints. To put it simply so he can understand, they live to kill people like OBL. That is their job. Their reason for living.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
What a ridculous comment.
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 3:47pm.
What a ridculous comment.
Mmmm, Columbia. Didn't some
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 9:55am.
Mmmm, Columbia. Didn't some other famous Oboofus go there?
I'd love to read his 1984 thesis on the Soviet Union and nuclear disarmament. Bet he sides against Reagan in it.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
I had a run-in with a Marxist
Submitted by rbosque on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:34am.
I had a run-in with a Marxist professor that got his PHd from Columbia, and man did this guy need to be jailed for treason and sedition.
Moms and dads, DON'T send your kids to Columbia!!!!!!!!!!!
A 30-second clip is hardly adequate
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:25am.
to provide the context and depth which is afforded by the full nine-minute segment [scroll down to "Inside the World of Kill/Capture Campaigns" video] from which the brief excerpt was yanked. The topic was one of much greater dimension and elicited far more nuanced views than Sachs' glib "murder" reference alone might otherwise suggest.
Jer
Perhaps. But so what? You
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:26am.
Perhaps. But so what?
You sound like the doctor who tells the patient's wife... "your husband's operation was a success, though he did die unfortunately."
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Nah, Jack...If I were the doctor
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:35am.
I'd give the widow an extra week to pay my bill.
Jer
Jeffrey Sachs is a true
Submitted by amyshulk on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:33am.
Jeffrey Sachs is a true believer. He's a bomb thrower who sincerely tries to get other "smart people" to agree with his opinions.
Ronald Reagan
Talk, talk, talk, talk &
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 12:56pm.
Talk, talk, talk, talk & never say a word. Welcome to the world of progressive t.v. I'll stick with Fox News. Sachs is no professor. He's an indoctrinator.
I stick with my original posting
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:29pm.
I am not talking Afghanistan policy as a whole, this particular policy.
They hammered Bush WITHOUT hesitation enmasse and cue the crickets this morning here.
Maybe and I MEAN MAYBE, one of their left of left guest hammered this policy, I just don't recall it.
Tomorama---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 7:06pm.
Just another example of Jer picking out an undigested grain from a pile of cow flop, and holding it up as proof that anomalies exist.
MD
MD, but this is Morning Joe!
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 7:26pm.
Have you no compassion, man?
SoL---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 7:32pm.
Yeah, once upon a time I did.
Then I discovered how screwed up and dishonest liberals are, and I threw away what little compassion I had so that I wouldn't inadvertently use any on them. :o)
MD
Matthew...You apparently are unfamiliar with the "Rule
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 12:40am.
of One Hundred Anomalies", i.e. the level at which accumulated ostensible anomnalies are no longer regarded as behavioral variants but are deemed to constitute an established pattern of conduct.
Jer
arythmomania*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 1:17am.
An establish pattern of conduct and style of presentation exemplified by the consistent obsession with numbers. ;-)
Reference liberals, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 9:02pm.
and what they have to say, and how they act, I think your second spelling of "anomalies" to be most appropriate.
Looks like a combination of 'anonymous' and 'lies'. :o)
The established pattern of conduct, regarding liberals, anyway, is certainly for real.
MD
What happened to the old font which was actually
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 10:13pm.
readable without doing serious damage to my eyeballs?
Jer
I Say Hoorah
Submitted by Owasco on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:34pm.
We are at war with radical Islam. Osama Bin Laden helped start the war. He was fair game to be shot on sight by any red blooded American, no questions asked. Being ex-Navy myself, I am not going to criticize our brave U.S. Navy Seals who took him out. They probably burst into his room, told him to freeze in Arabic, he made a move for a nearby AK-47, and they capped him. What did you expect the Seals to do, feel his pain and read him his Miranda rights?
Capture and try OBL in Gitmo so the radical Muslims can capture American hostages and demand his release. I don't think so.
I get emotional about this issue; I lost a cousin on 9/11/01. He was a NYC firefighter heading up the stairs of tower 1 trying to help people when it collapsed. I'm not going to lose any sleep over the way this Bin Laden operation went down.
Sorry for your loss
Submitted by Rukus on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 9:56pm.
Thank you for your service. That asshole got a double tap and that was that! Good job SEALS! Good riddance to bad rubbish! Keep it up brave service men and women!
Confusing Headline
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:40pm.
Does this nerd accuse the troops of acting alone? Are we entering into a Nuremburg Trials syndrome here, or Posse Commitatus challenge?
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Was that Mika I saw......?
Submitted by Herbster on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 2:48pm.
Was that Mika I saw under the "Professor's" desk.....?
This "Professor" is the kind of garbage that is teaching in our "Institutions of higher learning." Unfortunately, he is not a minority. The left has co-opted our educational system from pre-K through grad school. Women's Studies, Queer Studies, Latino Studies, Black Studies, Asian Studies, How evil America is Studies, etc. Guess I missed out when I attended college. We studied History, Literature, (Maya Angelou hadn't been discovered yet) Higher Mathematics, etc. We had a core of knowledge that one needed to graduate, along with DIFFICULT electives. One of my electives was Astronomy...Fascinating and challenging...we didn't have courses such as, "Silent horror films as a reflection of our evil, capatalistic society as seen through the eyes of Josef Stalin.." We read Shakespeare, Conrad, Whitman, Byron, Kant, Schopenhauer, Tolstoy, etc....and had to actually WRITE PAPERS showing that we UNDERSTOOD what we were reading. Yes, you had to know how to WRITE to get into college. How times have changed. Now we produce "Educated fools," like the "Professor." I have to assume that he ascribes to the school of thought that believes, "If I am nice to my enemies, the alligator will eat me last.." I have news for this gentleman.....with a name like "Sachs," the alligator will not eat him, but behead him FIRST! I suppose he believes that the beheading of Daniel Pearl was Mr. Pearl's fault......9/11 was "Our fault," etc. What a scumbag. Worse yet, these are the (Continuing) type of people that are given airtime on this repulsive show. COMCAST....where are you?
For a second there
Submitted by Model850 on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 3:19pm.
Sachs: People are hungry, they don't have employment, they don't have income.
For a second there I thought he was talking about the U.S. under Obama.
; ^ D
I do wonder if Joe was on how
Submitted by amyshulk on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:25pm.
I do wonder if Joe was on how this convo would have gone, since Joe has been pounding the table on getting out of Afghanistan to the point of annoyance. And Barnicle with his "we send other people's kids off to war so we don't have skin in the game" is particularly offensive,
Ronald Reagan