[Peace-discuss] More on C.I.A.

[C. G. Estabrook]

Stonor Saunders' book is brilliant, an appropriate companion piece for Legacy of
Ashes.  And they both document the truth of this assertion.  --CGE

David Green wrote:
> A post from the Angry Arab that references this link:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/opinion/08aswany.html
> 
> "We also wanted Mr. Obama, who studied law and political science at the
> greatest American universities, to recognize what we see as a simple,
> essential truth: the right of people in an occupied territory to resist
> military occupation." What is this fascination with the "best" universities?
> What is this admiration for "prestigious" degrees? People don't know that
> David Halberstam was frustated to his last days that people did not get that
> the title of his book (the Best and the Brighest) was in fact ironic. I also
> want to cite this passage: "Behind the 'unexamined nostalgia for the "Golden
> Days" of American intelligence' lay a much more devastating truth: the same
> people who read Dante and went to Yale and were educated in civil virtue
> recruited Nazis, manipulated the outcome of democratic elections, gave LSD to
> unwitting subjects, opened the mail of thousands of American citizens,
> overthrew government, supported dictatorships, plotted assassinations, and 
> engineered the Bay of Pigs disaster. 'In the name of what?' asked one critic.
> 'Not civic virtue, but empire.'" (Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold
> War, p. 427)