Hell On Earth, Courtesy of Raytheon

Long War: Several weeks ago CIA Director Petraeus held a meeting in Langley with the heads of ISI (Pak Intelligence). Shortly after that meeting a massive drone blitz began in the Pak tribal lands. It was the biggest drone blitz ever, with multiple drone strikes occurring on the same day, day after day. Not only was it large in scope, it was also different than previous drone strikes in that it was targeted. The strikes followed a pattern, like a dragnet narrowing down on a single target. Today we learned what that target was. We are told that drone fired hellfire missiles killed the Haqqai Network's operational commander, Badruddin. The Haqqani Network is the most powerful of all the Taliban's and its operational commander the most wanted man on the planet. If this is verfied, then the CIA has scored a huge victory.

While all this was going on there has also been a targeted NATO air strike blitz following a similar pattern in Afghanistan resulting at the same time in the death of Pak Taliban logistics commander Dadullah, also one of the most dangerous men on the planet. The Pak Taliban (along with Al-Qaeda, the Haqqani Network, and the Afghan Taliban) is one of the big four jihadist organizations, the baddest of the bad. Killing Dadullah is another big victory.

What did the CIA Director say to the ISI leaders? Can we guess? How about... "I will kill all your children and grandchildren if you don't give up Badruddin and Dadullah." Do you think he might have said something along those lines and then go on to prove that he means business? Probably.

Now consider another item... So called Green on Blue killing in Afghanistan are at an all time high. The Pentagon is now calling Green on Blue killings "Insider Killing" either way this is when a Taliban infiltrator within the Afghan Army kills a single NATO soldier or several soldiers. This is how most NATO soldiers meet their death, not in actual combat. Infiltrating an organization like an army is an intelligence agency activity. Preventing such an infiltration is an intelligence agency activity.

The entire Long War is an intelligence agency activity. That's why we should get the US Army and USMC out of all LW hot spots and turn the global war over to Special Forces and CIA. That's why the CIA should have complete operational command over all Special Forces. That's why, for the first time, we have the right person in the position of CIA Director.

And this transition is occuring. More jihadist are dying from the thermal shock wave of drone fired hellfire missiles than any other cause in Afpak. Whether you adhere to one of the three Abrahamic faiths or not, the Jihadist do, and the hellfire missile therefore has religious significance for them at least. The hellfire's thermal shock wave is calibrated to exactly replicate the ambient temperature of hell itself, which is 6500 degrees. So the engineers at Raytheon have designed this missile to give the jihadists a taste here on Earth of the place that they are destined to spend eternity. That's why they call it "hellfire."