According to Philip Giraldi, a former military intelligence and C.I.A. officer and an executive director of the Council for the National Interest;
“every country has a deep state of some kind. “The Establishment,” as it’s been called in the United States, where it evolved from the Washington-New York axis of national security officials and financial services executives. They are said to know what is “best” for the country and to act accordingly, no matter who sits in the White House.”
“In Turkey, deep-state forces support not only oligarchical interests but, it’s been plausibly contended, criminals including drug traffickers, money launderers and weapons merchants, when it suits their interests. Some analysts believe Egypt, too, has a developed, dominant, deep state, that is actually running the government. As in Turkey, the Egyptian version has grown out of the national security establishment.”
“The unwillingness of the United States to seriously confront the effects of supporting forces that enforce stability at the cost of democracy ultimately buys friendship with no one, because supporting promoters of strength to repress radicalism largely serves only to empower those same radicals.”
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