you, in turn, seem to be proposing that the CIA can some how be divorced from the US government... it can't.
And, I could care less if you defend either.
What brought me into this thread was you saying
"But democracies rarely choose war."
Which is a ridiculous statement in and of itself, and from there that the DPT is a bad theory based on ideals and hypotheticals, making anything valid it could say bankrupt