Isn't the point of the previous examples that every organisation ultimately works for its own survival/growth?

The cia was basically pointless when the ussr fell (I'm not sure I agree but that's the logic). It needed a reason to exist and Al Qaeda provided that. When that wore thin, it manufactured its own reason in Iraq, a country that had no wdm and was no threat. And so on.

I'm not saying I agree but that is the logic I believe