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World
The CIA’s Wrong: Arming Rebels Works
Dirty Business
President Obama has weighed the options and concluded America does more harm than good when it sets out to topple regimes. OK. But don’t pretend that’s the CIA’s fault.
Christopher Dickey
World News Editor
Published
Oct. 19 2014
5:45AM EDT
Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency
Christopher Dickey
World News Editor
christopher.dickey@thedailybeast.com
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