At the Daily Beast, Christopher Dickey has quite an interesting piece, contradicting the administration leak of a secret CIA report last week claiming that the Agencys history, when it comes to arming rebel forces, was failure. Dickey says, not so: it was successful -- as with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan against the Soviets -- though the result was catastrophic, regularly creating something worse than what had been there before. Its a very canny analysis. Heres how he begins, but its a packed piece which you have to read yourself. Tom What could be more cynical than a covert operation? Sure, there’s always a lot of talk about fighting for freedom, defeating tyranny. What was it Ronald Reagan called the Contras and the Afghan mujahedin? “They are the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers.” Actually some of the Contras whom I knew were the moral equivalent of pathological killers. They were so out of control that the CIA, which had armed them and trained them, finally had two of their commanders hunted down and executed. As I say, covert ops: cynical business. But recent reporting on the subject has been profoundly and, indeed, dangerously misleading about both the truth and the consequences surrounding such operations. thedailybeast/articles/2014/10/19/the-cia-s-wrong-arming-rebels-works.html
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:30:00 +0000
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