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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
Hey, FYI interms of this board:
People who just post article after article tend to get ignored.
Believe me, I know....
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Yeah... I figured, however, that I'd throw a few taught lines out and see if I got a nibble. I've been writing a bit over there, and planning some more, on this subject, as I believe rehabbing the CIA to be the best thing that could come out of this scenario, if we can find some DCers that get their minds off gay sex long enough to do something productive.
Max, the groupthink excuse, as you've noted, is just so much political whitewash posing as an ultimately weak excuse. In my mind, the reason we consistently fail in "on the ground" human intelligence gathering is wholly due to the decades of blundering interference the CIA is responsible for in that region. The answer to "Why do they Hate us?" is primarily pointing at the CIA... not our governmental policies, the Jews, or our military. It's pretty hard to tell the difference between good screwing around with their governments and bad screwing around with their governments, and I'm not so sure we should even expect them to try.
Internal turf wars and ill-conceived operations got us into this mess, and we won't be able to rely on the same tried and true buffoonery to get us out. The War on Terror is an intelligence war, and if the best we can come up with in methodology is what we've seen at Abu Ghraib, things aren't looking so good. The CIA has a long, rich history of patching up messes it created, just as we've always been able to count on DC to whitewash whatever went so bad we had to send soldiers to fix.
This is my soapbox du jour, and as I said, I've been working on it over there... If ya'll would like to discuss it, I'd be interested in your views.
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