Ok, so we failed to topple Venezuela or Syria, have lost any meaningful control over the festering wounds of Iraq and Libya, witnessed 20 years of relentless, gold-plated coalition conquest in Afghanistan get spanked and sent to bed without supper, and now we're supposed to be lining up for war with China? Do I have that right? Does that sound like a good idea to you? Anyone?

Yes, but it’s several generations in. The purpose of the agency, in the twentieth century, was to contort the world narrative to think that Western civilization is supreme and requires utter subservience in order to prosper. So now, at the near mid of the 21st century it’s job is minimize other places from within their own regions. The humans that work at the cia today, only and exclusively are doing it because they like what they saw in the movies.