re: #150 Amory Blaine

This is part of the consequence of occupation. I have a hard time believing strategists didn’t know ISIL was waiting to grab power.

I have a hard time understanding how we can spend billions on surveillance and spying yet be unaware of hundreds of armed fighters heading in to take over portions of Iraq. We’ve had thousands of personnel in Iraq for at least a dozen years and the CIA knew nothing about the intentions of ISIS or the threat posed by it? We’re eavesdropping on the electronic communications of the entire world and yet the NSA was completely unaware that a powerful rebel group was moving out of Syria and toward Iraq? What the fuck are we paying for here?