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Where is the 'intelligence' in the CIA?

Operation Mockingbird, right.
 
EagleAye said:
No, you misunderstand. Sunni Islamists of the MB / EIJ / AQ are already our enemy. If they manage to take control of Syria, then Syria will go from disliking the US from a distance, to being a very active and ambitious enemy. In other words, a much worse enemy.
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dude - everyone fighting in this mess is an enemy.
 
clownboy said:
Heh, you mean like sending 60 tons of VX to Iraq? :popcorn2:

My view on the CIA is this - reorganize it. Task it with intel and analysis and take away any action component - forbid them to action. If action needs to be taken on foreign soil, then dammit, it should be our military doing it, ordered by the chain of command.

No more black box projects, no more phantom budgets.
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Hint. Tanks make very poor spies. They tend to be.... noticeable.
 
cpwill said:
dude - everyone fighting in this mess is an enemy.
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Apparently we are trying to make "friends" by providing small scale support to the rebels. If the rebels win out in the end, I have a feeling the same people won't be "friends" any longer, especially if militant Islamists control the government and they probably will. It's the same tired script played out once again.
 
EagleAye said:
Apparently we are trying to make "friends" by providing small scale support to the rebels.
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I would hope no one advising the President is that naive. Far more likely we are trying to ensure that both Hezbollah and Al Qaeda have the resources necessary to Keep Killing Each Other For A Very Long Time.

This thing is sort of like the Iraq-Iran war. America's policy should be to try to figure out a way to get both sides to lose.
 
Well now wait a minute: this sort of thing has failed once, amid a litany of successes from an imperialist point of view, and you're complaining? It's worked in Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, Zaire, etc...
 
cpwill said:
This thing is sort of like the Iraq-Iran war. America's policy should be to try to figure out a way to get both sides to lose.
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That's probably the best we can hope for. I guess we'll need to keep the CIA around after all, eh?
 
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