The list of "failures" includes: The Bay of Pigs; The whole Vietnam thing; Radical misunderstandings about the intentions and capabilities of the Soviet Union; Destabilizing Iran; Interfering in Jamaican elections; Botched efforts to assassinate Castro; Failure to anticipate the Iranian revolution; Iran/Contra; Failure to predict the fall of the Soviet Union; Failure to predict Iraq invading Kuwait; Aldrich Ames (geez that guy); Failure to predict 9/11; The whole W.M.D. thing; Everything since 9/11; Illegal torture; Spying on the US Senate
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