Is the choice between having no intelligence service at all, and one that consists of warmongering, drug-running, black site torturing, extrajudicial assassinat

Is the choice between having no intelligence service at all, and one that consists of warmongering, drug-running, black site torturing, extrajudicial assassinating, media infiltrating, Epstein exonerators? Is that the only way to maintain a presence on the "global stage"? Are we in a stronger position for having spent trillions to replace the Taliban with... the Taliban? Was Vietnam smart? Was all that murder in South America for corporate profits justifiable? > Maybe I'm just a bootlicker that doesn't want to think of myself as evil. I hope you really ask yourself that.