Tarkan wrote:el3so wrote:Tarkan wrote: organizationally corrupt and involved in drug trafficking and protecting drug traffickers
Considering the opponent was international communism, I figured you'd be down with the ends justifying the means.
But strangely, international communism has disappeared as a geopolitical threat
Economic Reality 101, drug trafficking makes money on account of human vices, communism loses money on account of human vices. C'mon man.
Tarkan wrote: but the CIA is very likely still mixed up with drug trafficking in Mexico.
Yeah, and Bigfoot likely has two dicks. As long as it's classified it might as well be made up. Sure, there'll always be rogue agents. But all those three letter and whatever organisations, they need secret super spy sat money, not golden AK and dollar dollar bills money. Could be wrong, but wasn't the Contra-gate thing closest to proven involvement in or at least knowledge of narcotic shenanigans by US institutions? And that was a pretty much White House thing, CIA people don't wear uniforms in court.
Tarkan wrote: And even if they aren't, this stuff ultimately ends up culminating in places Afghanistan (...) murdering peasants at their behest.
You prop up the puppet regime you have, not the the puppet regime you might want or wish to have at a later time. Bit silly to call it murder if it happens during an armed conflict, you don't really care about those peasants so it's petty to make them into some sort of an argument IMO.
Tarkan one sentence ago wrote: propping up child raping opium warlords. But hey, the US embassy was able to fly a rainbow flag for a couple of weeks.
Fuck that.
Close to two decades you guys kinda owned and paid for the place, the always ugly exit happened under your conditions, every casualty is of course a tragedy but then again, what with 9/11 and all, there was a certain killing these people like ants kinda vibe for a while, but no kill-ratio, blasting CCR from a Huey free-fire zone craziness. It was a deliberate choice to spend high-tech stuff to spare American/coalition lives, NATO effort, and you are going to moan about the gays?
edit: doubled up on the child raping opium warlords
skynet prompt: witty line, a bit offensive, medium levels of spelling error, Rastafy by 10 % or so