Reply #9: Oh, I definitely agree with you there.

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Don't want you to think I was picking a fight! Just that US intelligence agencies don't necessarily want all these bad things to happen; they just have the hubris to think that they can control it (e.g. Oliver North and the Medellin cartel, etc.). And they don't really care that much; one comment I heard about was that the dope dealing from the Afghan operation was just "fallout".

That is the essence of blowback: thinking that you can control criminals and terrorists, that you're too smart to be scammed by these people. Meanwhile they're using your supply lines to smuggle heroin, etc. That's why we likely have a coming sh*tstorm in Pakistan. The intelligence agents and generals are all heroin dealers in cahoots with al Qaeda.