Spooks (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way?)

[andie nachgeborenen]

You have no idea what you are talking about. The
analysts in particular are people who just care about
the country, given their lights, and try to given
accurate and honest information, often to the
disconcertyion of their imperial masters, who ignore
their inconvenient advice and set up politicized teams
of outsider speacilaized to generate their own
disinformation." The ops are a different breed, but
they're not Ted Bundy types. You apparently missed the
news about the banality of evil. More importantly, you
missed the news about the fundamental problem: bad
system, not bad people (mostly). 

--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:


> >From: andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> >
> >I grew up with a lot of spooks ...
> >
> >The ex-ops were mostly pleasant, intelligent, but
> >mostly rather dull people ...
> >
> >The real point, Carl, is the problem is a bad
> system,
> >not bad people. It's a system that takes nice
> >patriotic, interesting, sane people ...
> >
> >--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  You know, I've met a few people in the past who
> > > wanted to work for the CIA. Not especially
> > > right-wing in outlook, more like some sort of
> comic
> > > book conception of things, not far from the kind
> of
> > > Asian-Buddha-master-ninja-special-forces crank
> kind
> > > of person (Stephen Seagal) ...
> 
> Be they dullards or comic book heroes, people who
> who want to be spies 
> axiomatically have a tenuous and malign grasp of
> reality.  They aren't 
> scholars interesting in amassing knowledge about
> different peoples that 
> bridges cultural gaps in any productive way.  They
> are people eager to 
> weaponize information and advance imperial causes. 
> Since they spend their 
> entire lives in disguise, it's not at all surprising
> that they come across 
> as "mostly pleasant" -- that's what being a
> psychopath is all about.  They 
> are the devil's henchmen.
> 
> Carl
> 
> 
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