Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "Joe Rogan | The Morality of CIA Assassins w/Annie Jacobsen" video.

  1. I've never understood why people seem to think it's fine to drop napalm on villages but avoiding the war by quietly assassinating the guy who's causing it is a no-no.
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  2.  @viktorisaksson7573  That depends on a lot of things, but mostly what kinds of deaths you count and how you define "capitalism". Do tens of millions of Native Americans who died from European diseases before Europeans even had any idea they existed count? Do the Pizarros count as capitalist? How about Hitler?
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  3.  @emilio2647  If she was on a diplomatic passport it wasn't dangerous at all - embassy staff don't get prosecuted for spying, they just get expelled. Same for Soviet-bloc spies in western countries on diplomatic passports. The people in real danger are the ones spying on their own country.
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  4.  @viktorisaksson7573  Well, except for the tens of millions of people murdered by those two communist governments. For them, communism was not a success.
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  5.  @viktorisaksson7573  Only if you leave out all the children who died of preventable causes under communist rule. But commies have never known how to play fair or be honest.
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  6. They did a lot more of it and with less oversight back then, but yeah, they've never stopped playing those games. You'd have to be pretty naive to think otherwise.
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  7. Your source can get reservations at Dorsia? He must have a fantastic business card.
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  8. That was a lot easier done when it took weeks to get to the US from anywhere but Canada or Mexico.
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  9. You might be surprised. Government agencies are like corporations: made of people, some good, some bad, but the morality with which the agency acts may not be the same as the individual moralities of its functionaries.
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  10. Right, because every country that had a communist leader turned into paradise on earth. Anyway the CIA had little to do with Lumumba's execution, that was Belgium's party. And it was Belgium that turned the Congo into Hell on Earth to begin with with its horrific colonial government.
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  11. I was on a ship with a SEAL team off Beirut in the mid 80s and they were doing the same thing. Untraceable guns from all over the Warsaw Pact and no labels on any of their clothes, most of which were civvies. They used to take their little speedboat over the horizon to the east and we knew better than to ask what they'd been doing when they got back.
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  12. Never hurt a man's dog. You never know who that owner might be.
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  13. Briefing officer: "Terminate the colonel's command." Willard: "Terminate... the colonel?" CIA spook: "Terminate... with extreme prejudice."
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  14. Your ignorance is no excuse. Che was extremely bloodthirsty and enjoyed taking a personal role in executions using his own pistol. He was also a violent homophobe and was responsible for the murder and imprisonment of many men just for being gay.
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  15. Just don't hurt his dog.
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  16. The CIA did not kill Che, they wanted him turned over for interrogation. Their asset on the scene, Rodriguez (who was an anti-Castro Cuban exile) disobeyed his orders and recommended that the Bolivians execute him immediately, but the ultimate decision was the Bolivian generals'.
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  17. One minor correction: he was working for the CIA, but he was not an officer in the CIA, he was a Cuban exile they used as an asset.
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  18. The problem is identifying the one guy out of thousands of others. You can't pay everybody in the country $50k, and even if you did how do you know they'll keep their word?
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  19. Che was a murderous thug and the entire world was better off with him dead. That said, Rodriguez defied his orders, the CIA wanted to keep him alive for questioning (as Che himself expected). Given their methods, which were even worse back then than today, just shooting him may have been more merciful. But ultimately it was the Bolivian generals who made the decision.
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  20.  @sargentfinex  I understand that no matter what he was a symbol of, Che was a murderous fanatic who caused misery and suffering wherever he went. Castro was glad to be rid of him, he was much more useful as a martyr than he'd ever been in life.
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  21.  @sargentfinex  Free helicopter rides for all commies.
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  22. What's the size of the canyon? And what are the atmospheric conditions like? I have seen some pretty impressive scopes of various types. Quality of the glass is much more important than magnification.
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  23. Bellum interruptum?
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  24. He was not a CIA officer, he was a CIA asset. There's a big difference.
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  25. Back in the Cold War they outsourced a lot of that work to Cubans and Bulgarians. Like the hit on the pope - that was a Turk working for the Bulgarians. Better plausible deniability that way.
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  26. Former guy? Is that another term for trans woman?
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