re: US Intelligence Community Strengths and Weaknesses

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I mean I know we try. I try dunking al the time And I still can't do it.

I guess my question is, and really the core point of this thread, is why, despite all of our efforts, do we still suck at it.

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See my last sentence. We do okay with Latins in this hemisphere and folks in Western Europe. We've also had limited success with Slavs and other central and Eastern Euros and East Asians. South Asian and Middle Eastern culture and psychology just seem a bridge too far in many respects. We have plenty historians, theologians, culturalists etc with broad knowledge of these cultures (including plenty natives to those cultures) but they apparently just can't train our analysts and leaders to orient their minds that way.