From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 11:48:11 MDT
In a message dated 8/30/2002 12:15:17 PM Central Standard Time,
spike66@attbi.com writes: If so, how would we know? Accounts of atrocities
and secret deals are so contradictory and mutually exclusive, I cannot make
sense of them. I dont see how we can ever find out what really happened in
the 20th century, for all the accounts seem to have some slant or spin. How
can we get to the truth, assuming that term "truth" as applied to history,
has some absolute meaning? Are we not always simply reading someone's
propaganda?
You know Spike, you are raising the very questions I ask myself every time I
see one of those movies or books that are based on some dastardly CIA plot.
I've learned to avoid those as it always seems the story is a bit thin. I
assume that the plot couldn't stand on its own so the CIA is run in to be the
villain -- sort of a lazy writer's device.
The disservice they perform is that they muddy the water until we
can't tell what is really going on. Do you suppose the CIA is promoting
those stories just to muddy the water?
Ron h.
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