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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16456)	4/19/2000 10:51:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Gustave, There is this show on the Travel Channel called "The World's Most Dangerous Places" and it obstensibly is about this guy who like to travel to the most dangerous places on the planet. Personally, I think the guy is actually a CIA field agent who collects data on the various civil wars around the planet. One episode he went to Afghanistan to travel around the Taliban areas of the country and to also try to meet with a rebel faction in the north that is fighting the Taliban. It was quite interesting. It appears that the Taliban is indeed helping fight wars all over the planet in the name of Allah. Many of the mercinaries fighting the Russians in Chechnya were trained by the Taliban, as well as Pakistanis fighting in Kashmir and mercinaries fighting on behalf of Bosnia and Albania. There is no doubt in my mind that these allies were behind the bomb- ing of our embassies. The unfortunate thing here is that Clinton is so Machi- avelli with regard to foreign policy that he ends up allied with these Islamic forces in Bosnia and Kosovo, and fighting them in Kenya and Afghanistan, and trying to broker a "peace deal" in Kashmir. Thats why the situation is so screwed up. There is no principle behind the actions of the US and that makes us vulnerable. If we actually had a President who regarded US National Security as important, we would not have all this BS going on around the world. In short Gus, your conspiracy theory holds zero water though. The Mossad and the French had nothing to do with the bombings of our African Embassies. -John

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16456)	4/19/2000 8:53:00 PM
From: robnhood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Hi Gus,, -- I'm drinkin again , but I wanna print something that I read today---- It's in Harper's---- This guy is hanging around with the protestors from Seattle----- One protestor has told him a defining moment in his life-- It was his first trip to his Sociology class at Long Beach Cal State--- The Proffesor walked into the room and said --- " The reason you are here today, is because we live in a society that can't find meaningful, constuctive, engaging work for enough of it's members. So we made up this thing called college to delay your entry into society for four or five years while training your minds to accept a system of discipline and control that benefits a very small percentage of the population. When you graduate, most of you will wind up working as waiters or dishwashers, or in other mindless dead end jobs. You will come home at night, get drunk, and watch television. Welcome to Sociology." Personally , I always thought the defining moment was when they taught us to line up in single file. I think that was around grade one... Fire drills were another, defining moment---- What do You think?