Freedom Fighters! Obama, Reagan, Libya, El Salvador

Late in February, we asked: does the CIA have any idea what’s going on in the “Middle East” and “North Africa”? (Or are they, you know, behind everything?) Well! “Small groups of C.I.A. operatives have been working in Libya for several weeks as part of a shadow force of Westerners that the Obama administration hopes can help bleed Colonel Qaddafi’s military.” Oh and they are authorized to arm… Libya’s… rebels… which, well. Gosh. But it all worked out sort of okay, despite U.S. intervention, in El Salvador… thirty years later. And I’m sure the CIA ops in Pakistan are going to work out just great! (I’m not sure of that.)