http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cia-report-undermines-obamas-upbeat-assessment-of-afghan-war-2161643.html Interesting link. For what I saw I only noticed a thing. The situation is still more terrible than I thought.
The USA are a drift empire that doesn't know exactly what did, what does or what should do. Then, in the doubt, the soldiers practically control everything and they follow making the same thing exactly: war, war, war.
After the destruction of Carthage, Polybius (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius) it invented a new mission for Rome: to civilize the people. The only ideology that moves the USA at this time seems to be that created by Políbio, in other words, the same that it provoked the Roman ruin.
The more wars to civilize people the USA do larger the enemy number that they produce and, therefore, larger the need to continue to do wars. More wars mean more military expenses, more poverty inside of the USA, more propaganda need to appease the American popular dissatisfaction. A very expensive lie corrupts all economy and every social coexistence in USA and it won't be capable to avoid the total destruction of the country.
The best metaphor of the USA at this time is BATTLESTAR GALATICA. Nor it is necessary to elaborate a lot the why of this my statement. The American soldiers are cylons, because they always make the same previsible thing in an irrational and mechanical way.