Reason You want to do something for your country. Then when you get in, the first thing you discover is that you can�t touch some of the biggest drug dealers in the world because they�re protected by the CIA or they�re protected by the State Department. Everyone from Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico to Manuel Noriega to the contras in Nicaragua to the Mujahedin in Afghanistan. Those of us who work overseas realize that this whole thing is a three-card monte game, that it�s a lie.