-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K ----- Click Here: <A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:592385">Tne Noble War</A> ----- Subject: Tne Noble War From: Ralph McGehee <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2000 8:19 AM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------9E318BE640C6C6999D1C5DCC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------9E318BE640C6C6999D1C5DCC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="bviet" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="bviet" The Noble War Book Review -- VIETNAM THE NECESSARY WAR, by Michael Lind; review by by Robert G. Kaiser. Lind argues that the war was not a disaster but a noble undertaking which had many positive consequences. He concludes that the war had to be fought to preserve American credibility...Lind finds fault with traditional criticisms of the war, insisting that it was neither so savage nor so unjustified as many have concluded. He does not understand Ho's one great advantage that the U.S. and its South Vietnamese allies could never trump. [Ho Chi Minh and] the Communist Vietminh defeated the French colonizers, a source of legitimacy and strength that they never lost. The Americans, were the white-skinned successors to the French. They helped restore the army the French had created, whose Vietnamese officers had actually adopted French names and passports...but their status was always, suspect. The war, complex as it was, never lost one essential quality: The North Vietnamese were the home team, the Americans and their Vietnamese helpers were the visitors. Washington Post January 31, 2000 X08. Ralph McGehee Comment: As I read Kaiser's review I felt a great deal of irony, for the fact that we could never win in Vietnam and that we were the invaders is what I attempted to tell the CIA from late 1967 through January 2000. But the Agency has brain lock and cannot accept even these belated truths. CIA propagandized itself and the world about Vietnam and still believes its own lies. See for instance the book, CIA AND THE VIETNAM POLICYMAKERS: THREE EPISODES 1962-1968, by Harold Ford, published in 1998 by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. The Agency also possesses brain lock about most all of its covert/intelligence operations. Until someone in government realizes this and takes action to correct, it will create more Vietnam-like disasters. To work in the CIA one must be true believers not analysts, even though George Tenet ardently claims to court such. Compliance, not intelligence, is the CIA's golden rule. One can only speculate about its intelligence today on Colombia, as the United States mounts a massive paramilitary operation there. Does CIA intelligence reflect facts or policy. What about its propaganda? Americans should have no illusions that the Agency and other involved government entities even know the truth, as they blind themselves and gird for war. Ralph McGehee <A HREF="http://come.to/CIABASE">http://come.to/CIABASE</A> --------------9E318BE640C6C6999D1C5DCC-- ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
