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To: boris_a who wrote (132216)	5/8/2004 5:04:56 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Which is why it's a good thing that the photos have come out. We, the people, trusted them to do the right thing, and they didn't, so now we'll have to change things, take away some of the autonomy and freedom we gave the military and the intelligence community and reinstate (or maybe institute) stronger oversight. It's like a pendulum. Sometimes the oversight is too loose, sometimes too strict. Impossible to ever get exactly right. As it's impossible to act without making mistakes. But we do have a system for analyzing and correcting mistakes. My recollection is that Switzerland was entirely too cozy with Hitler and Nazi gold during WWII. I could extrapolate from that set of events that Switzerland is a corrupt country full of corrupt people who profitted from the Holocaust and refused to give up the gold until it was pried from their hands by the use of force. Switzerland, the land of chocolate and cuckoo clocks and evil gnomes who turned their backs on naked orphans and impoverished widows and revelled in stolen gold. Or would that be a little simplistic?

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