The latest findings from our nation's top intelligence and black ops agency: our black ops have historically been pretty fucking worthless.

The New York Times reports today on the findings of a CIA study, commissioned by Barack Obama, on the success or failure of America's past attempts to fund and supply insurgencies in foreign nations around the world. Obama wanted a little perspective, before he plunged into Syria. The short version of the CIA's findings:

The still-classified review, one of several C.I.A. studies commissioned in 2012 and 2013 in the midst of the Obama administration's protracted debate about whether to wade into the Syrian civil war, concluded that many past attempts by the agency to arm foreign forces covertly had a minimal impact on the long-term outcome of a conflict. They were even less effective, the report found, when the militias fought without any direct American support on the ground.

In fact, the most successful U.S. intervention of this nature that the report cites is our back of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in the 1980s—and those people went on to become Al Qaeda. "Helping to create Osama Bin Laden" is the the high-water mark of CIA foreign actions.

Noam Chomsky could have told Obama all of this years ago. I don't know why he had to waste taxpayer money on a big study.

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