My problem with the radical Leftist critique of America is it ignores the Communist project of subversion throughout the 20th century (or worse, actually supports it), and thence fails to factor in the anti-Communist origins of the CIA & FBI, which we reasonably then infer implies a transformation of those institutions (and most other sociopolitical institutions as well) from anti-Communist to crypto-Communist saboteurs. I.e., at some point, the CIA & FBI (and most other sociopolitical institutions as well) were captured by Communists. The question is when this occurred. One complication to this question is that the "when" is likely not a specific moment in time, but an ongoing process which still is not complete now, but is on a trajectory toward success.
One of us is making a fool of himself in public. Since I was a professor of pediatrics at a major medical school (far from the Beltway) before I retired in 2011, I can’t help but make this a teachable moment. Allow me to direct you to two sources of foreign policy opinion that tend be libertarian and not “radical left critique:”
My problem with the radical Leftist critique of America is it ignores the Communist project of subversion throughout the 20th century (or worse, actually supports it), and thence fails to factor in the anti-Communist origins of the CIA & FBI, which we reasonably then infer implies a transformation of those institutions (and most other sociopolitical institutions as well) from anti-Communist to crypto-Communist saboteurs. I.e., at some point, the CIA & FBI (and most other sociopolitical institutions as well) were captured by Communists. The question is when this occurred. One complication to this question is that the "when" is likely not a specific moment in time, but an ongoing process which still is not complete now, but is on a trajectory toward success.
Ah, Hesperado,
One of us is making a fool of himself in public. Since I was a professor of pediatrics at a major medical school (far from the Beltway) before I retired in 2011, I can’t help but make this a teachable moment. Allow me to direct you to two sources of foreign policy opinion that tend be libertarian and not “radical left critique:”
1. Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. https://quincyinst.org/
2. Antiwar.com. https://www.antiwar.com/
I hope this helps in your search for the truth.