OK, you're impatient

Perhaps I've given you too much to read.

So I'll just give you this one sentence from Ambassador Dean, and then you may contemplate the death and destruction that has ensued from not heeding him:

I perceived {that} Washington's true policy in South Asia {was} full support for the most fundamentalist of all Islamic movements to take over political control in Kabul.

J.G.D also had heretical thoughts about the responsibility for the crash that had killed Zia ul Haq. For this he had his sanity questioned, and was essentially placed under house arrest.