If the Left does not wake up about Islam, Trump will win

[muriel_volestrangler]

185. You're still trying to get us to pay attention to a bunch of lunatics

even if one of them served under Clinton. I mean, look at how much he has pushed for war against any Muslim country - Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan. Woolsey has blood on his hands, the same way Cheney does. He is a true Islamophobe - he hates and fears all Islam, and all Muslims. The SPLC is quite right, and I'm quite worried a DUer is putting forward reports from Gaffney and his fellow idiots, who are infamous for conspiracy theories about the Muslims having secretly taken over both Democratic and Republican parties.

You say "the goal and mechanism is similar to the initial Team B report "; that's a bad thing.

Fareed Zakaria notes, however, that the specific conclusions of the report "were wildly off the mark.
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Rather than including a diversity of views ... the Strategic Objectives Panel was composed entirely of individuals who made careers of viewing the Soviet menace with alarm.[34]
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Time Magazine editor Strobe Talbott stated in 1990 that:

“Bush allowed a panel of outsiders, deliberately stacked with hard-liners, to second-guess the agency's findings. Not surprisingly, the result was a depiction of Soviet intentions and capabilities that seemed extreme at the time and looks ludicrous in retrospect.[35]

1976 is the era of détente, and the neocons hate this; they fear losing their favorite enemy, the Soviet Union. They are saying the CIA is coming up with much too rosy of predictions and they don’t believe the intelligence. Who takes over the CIA at this point? George H.W. Bush. They decide they have to go to battle against him and they form what is known as Team B, which starts an "alternative intelligence assessment." It effectively says the CIA is all wrong and that we have to redo their intelligence. But Team B's estimates were completely inaccurate.

Despite Kissinger's condemnation of Team B's assessment, Rumsfeld was effusive in promoting it as a credible study—and thereby undermining arms control efforts for the next four years. Two days before Jimmy Carter's inauguration, Rumsfeld fired parting shots at Kissinger and other disarmament advocates, saying that "no doubt exists about the capabilities of the Soviet armed forces" and that those capabilities "indicate a tendency toward war fighting ... rather than the more modish Western models of deterrence through mutual vulnerability." Team B's efforts not only were effective in undermining the incoming Carter administration's disarmament efforts but also laid the foundation for the unnecessary explosion of the defense budget in the Reagan years. And it was during those years that virtually all of Rumsfeld's compatriots were elevated to positions of power in the executive branch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B

The original 'Team B' was an exercise in fearmongering. Having the same objectives is not good.