Hi Ron, as I ve stated earlier, I'd better stay out of this. Besides, your analysis is way over my head. I ve to admit I am too sheltered to understand this sort of national security intrigues, let alone to speculate on it - it helps to spend life frivolously <G>. But one word caught my eye, namely, 'demotion,' which set off another stream of consciousness in me. If memory serves, the whole bunch of the old China Hands, the career diplomats who were sent to China before WWII to assess the political landscape and in an attempt to bring CCP and KMT to the table to fight the common enemy of the time, were being demoted - some of them into obscurity. I am talking about people like John Service who were both patriotic [since their goals were to serve their country, the USA] and conscientious as a human being. If memory serves, these people didn't get rehabilitated until the late 70s.
You may be right about this particular individual, or you may be wrong, but unfortunately, group psychology is such that the horde tends to agree with the posse, even though they may think they are anti-posse <VBG>
best, Bosco |
