It all seems a bit unlikely.

The director of Fight Club and Zodiac.
The writer of The West Wing, A Few Good Men and Charlie Wilson's War.
The musician behind the soundtracks for Lost Highway and Natural Born Killers.
And Facebook?

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(That's David Fincher, Aaron Sorkin and Trent Reznor, in case you didn't know)

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A plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a fox.

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the American response was to (covertly) sponsor and train local militias/freedom fighters.  Arguably it went well, since the Soviet Union left, and collapsed. Arguably it went badly, since it's some of those same people they're now fighting themselves.

Luckily they've got a plan... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/petraeuss-first-act-is-to-establish-militias-to-fight-the-taliban-2027711.html

It's like that Future Shock where the scientist keeps creating more and more super supermen :-)

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Inspired by a comment of lionsphil over at this discussion of the graduate tax.