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The American intelligence community has been in a state of decline since WWII. This paper explains the problems with current intelligence agencies and recommends an appropriate response to solve the problems we face as a country.

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"Henry Kissinger wrote in 1994, for the first time, the United States can neither withdraw from the world nor dominate it (Arkin, 37). Currently there are conflicting visions of where America s national interests lie in the post-cold war world. Our recent presidential administrations have attempted to form an international policy based on categorizing international problems, as threats to American ideals and interests, but without much success. Since 1945 the United States has struggled against isolationism, and as the world s leading political superpower, our role in the international agenda has been convoluted and contradictory. The current broad policy states the US will become involved in foreign issues when American national security or interests are threatened. However, it has become increasingly difficult to determine when this occurs, as a result of our elaborate intelligence policies."

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