far from the main cause, but my pet theory of why the US intelligence community & the Beltway foreign policy blob is extra stupid will sound very un-socialist, but it really is that they vet out 95% of applicants with an anodyne level of foreign descent
Good point, Also the Pentagon and beltway all exist in a could of corruption and waste… $750,000,000,000 is a lot of money to have to burn each year, so it’s no wonder the corrupt Gov. Forces in Afghanistan didn’t seem as much of an existential threat as they were to the nation.