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There are probably few organizations that are as consistently wrong as the CIA throughout its history. They've missed basically every significant event that hap

There are probably few organizations that are as consistently wrong as the CIA throughout its history. They've missed basically every significant event that happened in the post-war era, and often famously predicted the opposite. No less true in recent history - the Berlin Wall, 9/11, the Iraq War, the Arab Spring - the list of failures is constant and spectacular. This is unsurprising, since the main feature that produces good results for any analytical group - accountability - is notoriously absent for the CIA. Let's NOT learn methodology from this organization.

tozeur 8y ago
What exactly did they get wrong about the Arab Spring?
- paganel 8y ago
  Not the OP, but they probably genuinely thought that it would lead to a democratization of the Middle East and North Africa the same as it had happened to Eastern Europe after 1989. Instead we got ISIS and the cluster-f*ck of war-lords that is current Lybia.
  - Lkjhmnbv 8y ago
    Ever think that has to do with how it was handled politically? What assistance did these people get from the west?
    - paganel 8y ago
      > What assistance did these people get from the west? The West has created a power vacuum that has allowed these entities to impose their control.
giardini 8y ago
astazangasta says>"There are probably few organizations that are as consistently wrong as the CIA throughout its history. They've missed basically every significant event that happened in the post-war era, and often famously predicted the opposite." So the CIA is about as good as mainstream economists, then?