Thursday, May 1, 2008

A more-or-less accurate transcript

On 22 April I noted that Rob Riggle's Daily Show segment on the GAO report
COMBATING
TERRORISM
The United States
Lacks Comprehensive
Plan to Destroy the
Terrorist Threat and
Close the Safe Haven
in Pakistan’s Federally
Administered Tribal
Areas
was the best analysis I'd seen, heard, or read, and provided a "remembered quotation" summary.

The video is now posted on The Daily Show website (link given above). Here's a more-or-less accurate partial transcript:
Riggle: My take is that in the United States' War on Terror we've been walking around in a f-ing circle!
...
Let me just give you the Cliff Notes, okay?
In 2001 there was a memo, "Bin Laden determined to attack United States from a safe haven in Afghanistan."

Now, seven years and 700 billion dollars later, we get a new memo saying, "Bin Laden determined to attack United States from a safe haven somewhere around Afghanistan."

We're right back where we started!
We could've gotten here by doing NOTHING!
...
Stewart: So, do you think the President's gonna make any changes based on these reports?

Riggle: Yeah... yeah, this'll be a wake-up call. If there's anything this President responds to, it's written criticism!

[emphasis and FONT intended to capture Riggle's vocal emphases]
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