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The Left Is Not Joe Biden's Problem. Joe Biden Is.

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I like reading histories of the CIA. Not only because they remind us that our nation’s prosperity is built atop a foundation of lawless secret crimes against humanity that render laughable our claims to moral leadership. Also because they lay bare the important lesson: You can’t predict the future. Over and over, pipe-smoking men with impeccable credentials gathered in Georgetown townhouses and plotted out sweeping actions on the global chessboard that, inevitably… fucked shit up down the road. Coups and assassinations and rigged elections designed to somehow bolster their idea of America’s power produced conditions that gave rise to new generations of people determined to destroy America because they had been victimized by those same men’s Gepetto fantasies of making all the world’s population dance on their strings. Turns out that all the Domino Theory-esque bullshit that fueled decades worth of bloody global maneuvering were… mostly wrong. Just bad theories. Just overconfident guys

The man in the mirror. (Photo: Getty) I like reading histories of the CIA. Not only because they remind us that our nation’s prosperity is built atop a foundation of lawless secret crimes against humanity that render laughable our claims to moral leadership. Also because they lay bare the important lesson: You can’t predict the future. Over and over, pipe-smoking men with impeccable credentials gathered in Georgetown townhouses and plotted out sweeping actions on the global chessboard that, inevitably… fucked shit up down the road. Coups and assassinations and rigged elections designed to…

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