The former head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center has suggested that counterinsurgency tactics used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan should be applied to ‘domestic extremists’ inside the US.
NPR reports that Robert Grenier, who directed the CIA’s Counterterrorism program from 2004 to 2006, declared “We may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency within our own country, perpetrated by our own countrymen.”
In an op-ed for The New York Times last week, Grenier suggested that “extremists who seek a social apocalypse … are capable of producing endemic political violence of a sort not seen in this country since Reconstruction.”
Grenier, also a former CIA station chief in Pakistan and Afghanistan, grouped together “the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, the Oath Keepers, ‘Christian’ national chauvinists, white supremacists and QAnon fantasists” and claimed they are all “committed to violent extremism.”
Grenier labeled dissenters an “insurgency” and called for them to be “defeated” like an enemy army.
Just curious…anyone thinking that these bugaboo boys are also just more bad actor’s? How are they able to walk into states with strict gun laws and do as they wish, wish ZERO reprocussions….? Seems odd to me! Any thoughts?
They didn’t put the bug boys on list…So, maybe they have a friend in high places. If they are legit, I fully respect them and opinions though. They made very valid points in some interviews I watched. Lmk what you think plz
From the article: “In further comments to NPR, Grenier stated that “as in any insurgency situation, you have committed insurgents who are typically a relatively small proportion of the affected population. But what enables them to carry forward their program is a large number of people from whom they can draw tacit support.”
What they’re describing is a guerilla resistance. The resistance will be comprised of maybe 10% -- 20% actual shooters which will require the support of large swaths of the populace.
These stupid idiots are playing with dynamite by trying to strike the fuse.
If that starts, then Robert Grenier will be the first to get double tapped..
“extremists who seek a social apocalypse … are capable of producing endemic political violence of a sort not seen in this country since Reconstruction.”
wow, SOMEONE believes in our power!
why don’t we?
The Fear Level of these communists has risen Exponentially since their success at ‘Stealing’ the Election.
I wonder Why?
Because (((they))) KNOW it is Illegitimate, and (((they))) Know We Know.
Cornered Rats are Dangerous. Time to Stomp them.
The Stalinist purges begin! This is why the Russians killed more Russians than they did Germans circa WW2. The CIA is becoming the KGB/GRU/NKVD in awfully short order.
So, I’m not an American now??