27-02-2010, 03:37 PM
Phil Dragoo Wrote:I would nominate the Central Intelligence Agency as the core sponsor[.]
The CIA is a tool, not a contractor.
I respectfully submit that it makes as much sense to identify the CIA as the sponsor as it does to declare and wage war on a weapon -- terrorism, for instance.
Just as respectfully, I suggest that a sensible, comprehensive model of the CIA that is not informed by the deepest of deep political analysis is neither sensible nor comprehensive.
With apologies to Socrates:
Was/is the CIA a monolithic entity devoid of conflicting factions, agendas, and loyalties?
Who had the authority to sponsor the murder of JFK in the fashion in which it was carried out and covered up, yet remain immune from legal and extra-legal sanction?
Or, if you prefer: Who was/is at the top of the food chain?
Charles Drago
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene