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oh where oh where has my ninth amendment gone
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Originally posted by LessinSF
This is the problem with my support of better intelligence - our intelligence agencies have a shitty track record in this field. Maybe with the downfall of the Eastern Bloc, they could focus better on anything other than their former mantra of "Must. Oppose. Soviet Union. Regardless," but I'm not sure. We simply often don't understand the culture and mindset of these other cultures and, accordingly, fail to handle these things appropriately. Hence, I also remain fairly anti-interventionist, not because I think things are wrong elsewhere, but because our track record on effecting positive change through our military and clandestine efforts (where we have been the protagonist/aggresssor) in the last century has been so dismal.
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Once you start knocking off foreign leaders, it becomes attractively simple for our political leadership to try to deal with foreign problems in that way. E.g., the temptation to think that Chavez is the source of our problems with Venezuela, rather than a symptom. I agree that our intelligence agencies are not always perfect, but there's also a problem at the top (generally, not just in this administration).
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