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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence

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To: b-witch who wrote (1516)	9/13/2001 5:45:37 PM
From: Teresa Lo	Read Replies (4) of 27666

"what do we do with the reality of what our country has done in recent past that has contributed to the terrorism in our world?" I have many thoughts on this, as my father was a career military man. His speciality was in the logistics of guerilla warfare - if you can even believe it - and he participated in many U.S. covert operations all over Asia over a period of at least 30 years. I grew up being tutored in Chinese by his colleagues, men with blond hair and blue eyes from Iowa and Virginia. I regularly went to weekend outings with the families of these operatives. My father told me stories of how they installed Suharto in Indonesia, and in the end, he was as bad or worse than Sukarno before him. This has gone on for fifty years all around the world and I assume it has been some kind of unofficial foreign policy. Perhaps some answers can be found in the fact that it is human nature to put a Band-Aid on something, instead of dealing with the root problem because it is too dirty or would cost too many lives. This time, the wound is too great for a Band Aid, and we have to make some hard choices.

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