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Critical Analysis of CIA’s Failure in Afghanistan

Abstract

International watch dog analysis that all security agencies have evolved from state institution tasked to help other government institution has slowly and gradually evolved to such might and power that they have become state within the state. They have role in making state business according to their needs and necessities. In most of the under developed countries they are even considered as the real bastion of power and state institution such as legislation, Executive and Judiciary have become literally paralyzed. These security agencies have symbiotic relations with other security agencies belonging to other states. Throughout the world they are literally shaping the foreign policy of particular country. Hawkish elements in the corridors of power make the security of whole world at stack and doldrums. In his early weeks as director Tanet was invited by former president Gerald Ford to appear on a panel titled “Does America Need the CIA?” The mere existence of such an event signaled how low the agency had fallen. As he prepared his speech, Tenet returned to the CIA’s founding by Harry Truman. The agency’s purpose was to prevent another Pearl Harbor. The CIA was “an insurance policy” against that sort of strategic surprise. “It is clear to me that the potential for dangerous surprise is as great as ever,” he told Ford’s panel. “That is true whether I look at terrorist groups whose sole purpose is to harm American interests, the biological weapons that Saddam Hussein is still trying to build and to hide in Iraq, or the programs Iran has for building intermediate range missiles and nuclear weapons.” There were certain undeniable causes for the failure of CIA in Afghanistan. Although to some extant CIA has attained its goals but the overall evaluation reveals that CIA has failed in achievement of its cause due to numerous reasons. This study represents as well as focuses the factors which paved the way making C.I.A to be completely failed in Afghanistan to achieve its particular goals.

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