I've been watching Snowfall and something I just realized is a big theme in the show is how totally incompetent all the criminals actually are, and how they wouldn't have been successful w/o the CIA's active involvement in the cocaine and crack epidemic.
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Sorry that's the end of Season 2 where Franklin was released. Anyway, throughout most of the show there's many touch points where--if the CIA weren't involved--this would have all collapsed and not been as bad as it was. There is one missing piece from it though:
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In the show they make it seem like Reed (CIA guy) is doing this to stop communism in Nicaragua, and that they're doing all this destruction of America to save America. It's an ends-justifies-the-means scenario, but it's also a very bland one dimensional view of the motives.
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In a way, the show is sort of absolving the CIA of guilt by making it seem like they're intentions were good, but in my experience everyone who follows end-justifies-means philosophies always has an ulterior motive that backs the means not the ends. They use the ends as cover.
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I think the CIA characters would have been better if they weren't given the cover of the end result of "Stop Communism", and instead shown to actually be purposefully smuggling cocaine for another purpose. Make it not obvious, just a slow reveal over a season.
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This also applies to our government
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