[JohnGalt]

I agree to some extent; the Cold War is generally thought of, in conservative census circles, as a unique case. I point out, however, that is was the failure of the CIA to clean-up loose-ends and then to employ radical Islam in different parts of the world that needs to be aired if we as some sort of cognitive elite are going to make rational determinations on 'what to do' rather than rely on mere ideology.

Do you recall LD Brown and Terry Reed? LD Brown said that the CIA attempted to employ him on a trip to Mexico to assassinate Terry Reed, a former drugs and guns pilot in the Mena/Louisana Barry Seal days. That clean up job was to protect political careers; what about clean up jobs to protect national security?

[Huck]

LD Brown said that the CIA attempted

That's not much to go on.