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Articles like this must be the best possible ISIS propaganda.

A nation does this, refuses to reign in the perpetrators, and really believes itself to be the good guy? I can understand when muslims read this and say to themselves: Maybe ISIS is not that bad after all.

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> A nation does this, refuses to reign in the perpetrators, and really believes itself to be the good guy?

A government. Large parts of the left and the right are no fans of the CIA. But it's one of those things voters have lost all control over, just like no matter who they vote for, US meddling in the middle east will continue.

Edit: In fact, even the (elected) government has lost control of the CIA: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spy...

And the government doesn't represent the people of that nation? Then what the hell is the point of democracy?

The point of democracy is to try to make it represent the people. Often, it fails.

No. The point of democracy is to spread "democracy" to other parts of the globe so that they can be cheaply exploited. It has nothing to do with the people of the nation. The only masters are some of the big corporations.

You don’t really expect the people to take responsibility for the actions of their government, do you? That would require us to have some authority to change the status quo, or be able to hold the government accountable. Neither option seems remotely possible, based on everything that I have seen in the last 40 years.

It's formally under the control of the president, directly. So that means, if the president is a "bad chess player," to put it one way, the CIA is in control of itself.

What were you expecting?

Muslims do not need to read article like these to get violent or support ISIS they can read they holy book for all the inspirations for doing violence.

Remind me who dasas are in Vedas again?

How would I know I have never read them.

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