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I had an interesting encounter yesterday. While biking home from the peace demonstration, I came across four ROTC officers loading their gear into their jeep after training exercises on Picnic Point. I approached them and said, "Looks like you're ready for business. By the way, you know it was the CIA that recruited, trained, and equipped Bin Laden and his whole network, right?" The leader of the young officers snapped to attention and crisply recited: "Bin Laden? Repeated US training visits, 1979-1983. Trained on U.S. soil--Fort Benning, Georgia." (then he listed several other places I didn't recognize.) "Trained in cryptography, finance, covert operations. Equipped with the works--everything up to stinger missiles." He paused dramatically, then spat out: "It sucks." I said, "Well, I guess it's you that's educating me. Sounds like you know what you're doing. But hey, are you really sure you want to go over there, knowing what you know?" He said, "The best solution would be international, multilateral and diplomatic. But if we have to go, I'll go so that people who don't want to won't have to." I left feeling a bit more sympathy and respect for those kids in uniform. And a lot less respect for the mainstream American media, which haven't exactly been living up to their first amendment responsibilities to inform the electorate. When I stood up and recounted this conversation to my 100-student folklore lecture, only three had even heard of the Bin Laden-CIA connection. Let's work public opinion hard, folks, so those kids won't get sacrificed on the altar of holy war--which is, as Michael Fisk has been pointing out, is exactly what Bin Laden wants. -- Kevin Barrett University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of African Languages and Literature 408-B Eagle Heights Madison, WI 53705 Here's a case for the 5-4 Supreme Coup: "Can I shout 'Reichstag Fire' in a crowded theater of operations?" Dreamtime Village <http://net22.com/dreamtime/index.shtml> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
