Since no one had mentioned these contexts and since I know a bit about it I figured I’d put it out there, a change from the general tin foil hattery (of course even the paranoid do have enemies) and whargarbl.
Our spooks just force the other ‘sides’ to hire more of their own. Our wars on terror just makes more terrorists.
That is the nature of war. In one regard it doesnt matter whether the agency making war on you is a state or non state actor and not all weapons cause physical damage. I’d rather see more of the stuff I wrote about before than carpet bombing which is indeed “fighting the last war”.
We as a nation have a bit of history with this sort of bad decision making among our leadership, and I haven’t seen an indications of change.
OK but lets not confuse the NSA with the leadership. Even if there is some element of tail wagging dog, real life isnt a Hollywood B grade thriller. Even were some Dr. Evil type at the NSA to CGI up some video of the POTUS with a live boy and a dead girl, their job is sigint and they do answer to someone else in the end.
I simply don’t trust the sort of person who most easily gravitates to power in our political and military industrial complexes.
Sure. Same idea goes at least as far back as the Babylonian Talmud: “Love work, hate being in a position of authority, and do not become overly intimate with the ruling authorities.”
As you say, theres some human nature/psychology at play here.
