The CIA has been

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The CIA has been getting a lot of grief lately over our lack of quality human assets in the Al Qaeda and Taliban ranks. But what are our spooks supposed to do? Send some fresh-faced American kid over to Afghanistan, have him knock on the cave door and say, ‘hey, I wanna join!’?

I mean, c’mon! Let’s be realistic.

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