24-04-2012, 10:48 PM
You're STILL not getting it.
There is no "the CIA" any more than there was a "the KGB."
These organizations are/were compartmentalized and factionalized (not redundant) and anything but organizationally or ideologically monolithic entities.
This reality is central to our appreciations of deep politics and its many manifestations.
Until we can master the very language we use to express what decades of study have revealed to us, we are fucking helpless.
There is no "the CIA" any more than there was a "the KGB."
These organizations are/were compartmentalized and factionalized (not redundant) and anything but organizationally or ideologically monolithic entities.
This reality is central to our appreciations of deep politics and its many manifestations.
Until we can master the very language we use to express what decades of study have revealed to us, we are fucking helpless.