Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Intelligenceless

When looking at Iraq, it seems like we have not learned anything from 9/11. The seed of the problem was a bad C.I.A. policy. In the 80’s they waged war against the Soviet Union by funding small radical groups in Afghanistan, not caring of their convictions or beliefs. In the end one of the groups we helped support slammed two planes into our sky scrapers and killed thousands.

Four years ago the C.I.A. creates one of the worst botches of all time in the Iraq war and is now using the same useless cold war tactics against Iran by funding small tribes to fight. It is hypocritical to fund radical groups like the Jundallah group. This group is kidnapping Iranian officials and executing them, attacking in an Al Qaeda mold.

To change the image of America, we first have to stop these tactics. The rest of the world is catching us, talking out of both sides of our mouths. There needs to be accountability within the C.I.A. and their dead ideology. Combating evil with evil changes nothing.

The saddest part of all this is that nothing has changed. No one is questioning, why are they mad at us? There is no discussion. The crumbs of ineptitude leads to the C.I.A.

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