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leveymg

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14. Sometimes, I wish I hadn't refused Agency recruitment. I might be happier these days. But, I

Reply to Lasher (Reply #13)

Mon Dec 10, 2012, 07:30 PM

Dec 2012

suspect many at Langley, along with those still with a conscience at Foggy Bottom, are just as miserable as ever.

Who knows? Can you imagine being the staff guy who tells Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and David Petraeus how terribly wrong they got things in MENA? Might be fun. But, that would surely end any promising government career.

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Syria rebels overrun Aleppo military base [View all] UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2012 OP

This is probably going to get worse before it gets better oberliner Dec 2012 #1

It's really bad vs maybe not so bad maybe really really bad. nt geek tragedy Dec 2012 #2

That is easy. John2 Dec 2012 #5

We not only funded but CREATED the Taliban. UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2012 #8

What time period do you mean? oberliner Dec 2012 #15

The video looked like the 40s or 50s. UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2012 #16

Here's a video. UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2012 #17

A lot of the internet sources contradict one another oberliner Dec 2012 #9

Radical jihadist militants Lasher Dec 2012 #3

It's going to be a real mess after Assad flees the country. UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2012 #4

The last I heard, John2 Dec 2012 #6

IMO, there's no real question that it's going to turn into another Lebanon Xithras Dec 2012 #7

I hate to say it, but there seem to have been only a few on this board who saw this coming. leveymg Dec 2012 #10

I've been thinking a lot of Egyptians must be experiencing buyer's remorse. Lasher Dec 2012 #11

I've been depressed about this stuff for years. And, it just gets worse. eom leveymg Dec 2012 #12

�We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, Lasher Dec 2012 #13

Sometimes, I wish I hadn't refused Agency recruitment. I might be happier these days. But, I leveymg Dec 2012 #14