CIA stands for Central Intelligence Agency

So often this seems like such a misnomer. Sometimes, Centrally Inept Agency seems a more appropriate name. Recently, sadly and dramatically, eight members of the CIA, including some high ranking members, were killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Compounding the terrible nature of this event, the bomber was actually ushered in past all of the security measures in place because he was thought to be a friendly informant. He bypassed metal detectors and guards at several points. Any one of these points would have easily uncovered the bomb vest the bomber was wearing.

How this could happen is almost impossibly to understand. In trying to defend itself, the CIA tried to explain that the bomber was considered a “friendly” and was therefore allowed to by-pass security.

What does this mean, exactly? What is a “friendly” exactly? When any citizen in the US goes into any Federal building and most local and state government buildings, we are all required to go through metal detectors at least and usually our belongings are x-rayed as well. We would all be classified as friendly, but the intelligent way to handle security measures is to have them apply to everyone equally. Seems like that commons sense that is at times so notably lacking.

Recent events here at home, particularly the massacre at Fort Hood, should have made security forces around the world doubly cautious. It was a “friendly” that killed all of those soldiers.

The CIA referred to the event in Afghanistan as the terrorist equivalent to a precision weapon. Hardly. A precision weapon does not rely on the gullibility and downright stupidity of so many. A precision weapon intelligently and surreptitiously circumvents an enemies defenses, it does not ask to be invited in.

The success of a precision weapon attack leaves the enemy scrambling to find a way to defend against future such attacks. An attack like the one in Afghanistan leaves everyone asking the same question - “How could one organization be so stupid on so many levels?”

So while the attack on the members of the CIA in Afghanistan was extremely sad, it was even more demoralizing. Such events occur over and over and lessons never seem to be learned. As long as events such as this are allowed to happen, enemies around the world will have hope that their unlikely plans will prove successful and that their God is the most righteous. Such unlikely success will propel our enemies forward as no other type of success could.