On 10/12/05, Dan Scanlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I spent a lot of hours on planes and in airports the last few days > and was able to read Michael Chossudovsky's War and Globalization. I > think he's made a very good case that stories like the one cited > below from SLATE is the result of strawman diversion orchestrated by > the CIA. Discussions about incorrect analysis and failure to pay > attention are discussions the bad guys want us to have. Issues like > this keep us from seeing their own responsibility for 911 and other > chaos that is fostered to keep arms sales up, oil controls in place, > plain folks subjugated and progressives sidetracked. If we weren't > discussing this, we might be creating strategies for prosecuting the > CIA and its cohorts in the House, Senate, Executive and media for > creating Al Queda in the first place and funding Bush family buddy > Osama Bin Laden, etc.
this sounds a lot like conspiracy theory to me. I find that kind of theory to be pretty bad. There are conspiracies now and then, of course. (What would the CIA be without secret manipulations?) But in fact the ruling elite that is supposely steering the historical process represents the shifting coalition of different interest groups (some of which hate each other[*]) working within a well-entrenched social system (capitalism, patriarchy, white ethnic privilege) that exists outside of the elite's control. Further, the elite doesn't always get what it wants, as in Iraq. Not only are the neo-con strategic objectives being served poorly there, but a lot of the special interest goals aren't working out that well. [*] For example, I would bet that Paul Wolfowitz and the fundies hate each other. There are also splits between Yalies and Harvardoids, etc. -- Jim Devine "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
