No, We Don't Worship the CIA

Long War: A video has gone viral showing an Afghani woman being executed by the Taliban for adultery. Her adulterous act was to be raped over the course of several months by two Taliban commanders. She probably started fighting back, which pissed off the two commanders, hence the charge of adultery. This all took place only a few miles from Kabul, well away from the parts of Afghanistan under complete Taliban control. The woman's sentence was handed down by a Taliban court controlled by the two commanders. These courts are much more popular than official government courts because in matters of property and business they are virtually corruption free. In other words, if my neighbor builds a fence on my goat pasture, then a Taliban court will force the fence to be removed without shaking me down. A government court will demand a bribe, but it will leave the fence up if my neighbor can pay a bigger bribe. So if I am a goat herder in Afghanistan, then I will respect and obey the Taliban if I can keep my head down in my personal life, keep my wife and daughters covered head to toe and indoors all the time.

The Taliban leaders can afford to be corruption free in their governance because they make huge money in the heroin trade. Shaking down a small goat herder is unnecessary when you are making huge money selling narcotics.

What this means is that the Pentagon, the Army and the USMC, can never win the war in Afghanistan. There is only one way to win the war: The CIA has to create its own Taliban, one that it can control, and then this organization has to take over the heroin trade and the Taliban court system. This can only happen when NATO leaves the country, international aid stops, NGOs leave, and the media leaves. In the darkness of benign neglect the CIA can easily win the war, like falling off a log. This is how the CIA won the Cold War. It is a proven formula. It is not appealing. It is morally questionable. The only thing it has going for it is that it works and will bring peace and prosperity to a war torn planet.

Kofi Anan (the UN point man for Syria) says he has made a breakthrough in negotiating with Assad and has just arrived in Iran to peddle whatever deal he has come up with to Syria's boss, the Ayatollah. Maybe this is a big breakthrough and maybe not. For the sake of argument let's say it is a breakthrough. It has come about because the CIA is running the war in Syria and it is not playing by the Boy Scout Pentagon rule book. For example, the CIA almost succeeded in getting Turkey to attack Assad's government, which certainly scared the crap out of the tin pot dictator.

In Libya election results are coming in and the Islamist parties are taking it on the chin. Probably the election there was not fair. It was probably rigged by our good friends in Langley. Again, the Boy Scout, Dudley Doright, rule book is not widely read by the spooks in Langley. They don't play fair. They don't fight fair. The kick you in the balls, pull your hair, say you started it all, and everybody believes them. Not Kosher. Not cool. Not cricket.

We don't worship the CIA. We don't think they walk on water. All we are saying here is that they are the right tool for the job at hand: winning the @#$%& Long War.