Re: Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way? (bis)
On Jun 19, 2006, at 11:01 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote:
I forgot to mention: my successful CIA guy is — what else? – a Democrat, and self-identified as a “liberal” and a “progressive”.
That’s not unusual, is it? A lot of CIA types are liberal
internationalists who believe in the basic goodness of the empire,
even if you’ve got to get your hands dirty now & then. That was
certainly the culture of the early CIA, coming out of the “Oh So
Social” OSS. As Robin Winks put it in his book on Yale & the CIA, the
Agency started to run into problems when it started recruiting at
state universities and came up with guys who didn’t know their way
around Florence without a map. But there are still some of those
types there; a lot of the analysts weren’t happy with invading Iraq,
right?
Doug