I would argue that we DID create them in that we did far more than tolerate�we endorsed because they suited out temporary needs (which we could see because we DO NOT look through a historical lens).
Read the history of Manuel Noriega�same thing.
Without the covert and overt support of all three, they would have never become as powerful as they did.
Our government is merely an extension of us. . .we are victims of our own presentism that is clouded by our Utopian view of the future. . .