America’s Suicide Attempt—The Sequel
16th August 2021
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The scale of failure in Afghanistan is hard to overstate. Our “intelligence” services (who deserve to be referred to in scare quotes until they display some actual intelligence some day) were incapable of picking up any signs that the Taliban were arming and organizing on a large scale for their swift takeover of the entire country, or if they did gather any on-the-ground signals, their interpretive process (a polite term for “groupthink”) prevented them from drawing accurate and meaningful conclusions. This is the opposite of intelligence: it is the product of an establishment that simply lacks the capacity to think at all.
Our ‘intelligence’ agencies aren’t. That’s the bottom line. Everybody in the top echelons of the CIA, NSA, DIA, etc., ought to immediately lose their jobs.