[JohnGalt]

Apologies for the tone--it was out of line on a combative thread.

AQ would not exist if the CIA had not employed it in Charlie Wilson's War against Afghanistan. First, tar and feather the government officials who screwed up, and then talk about how to go about tying up the loose ends.

Debt financing in international markets has national security implications on its own; two that come to mind is the debt held by China and the potential for oil republics to switch from the dollar to a different currency.

[Flightdeck]

That book, Charlie Wilson's War was shocking. I couldn't believe one man was basically able to engineer and instigate that whole thing.