To: Raymond Duray who wrote (3690 ) 1/25/2003 4:48:38 PM From: James F. Hopkins Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898 RE>> The outlines of the Great Game are apparent. << In a general sense they are, The Rich get richer, the poor poorer, and the poor help to arrange it. -- The big eat the small, and it's been that way forever and I have no reason to expect it to change. -- If we truly study history we find it never offers up tidy events and clear motives. It's always quoted and honored by different players in a context they think will further their own aims. -- I'm sure this sounds cynical as hell, but it's what I've come to see. Today perhaps more than the past; the movers and shakers of the more powerful social orders have consolidated their power in clandestine plans. Intelligence , and counter intelligence agencies by the 1st rule of bureaucracy expand and expand some more. If we look at the CIA, KBG, SIS, MOSAD, and dozens of others we find one thing in common. It's that the nature of the agencies "the Modus operandi" of each of them eventually give them more in common with one another than they wind up having with the Governments they were designed to serve. Another thing in common is that they all eventually find ways to "work around" any rules their respective governments imposes on them. Misinformation is such an essential tool that eventually the truth gets lost, they become self deceiving, and denial becomes a way of life. Loops inside of loops, layers of intrigue. But these honorable men are not without their own agendas so they tend to feed information "they" consider relative to their respective leaders, while withholding any that may jeopardize their own jobs. The more you study it the more you see they don't even know exactly what happened or what they are doing. Its one mass of confusion that each side has to believe they have a handle on in order to justify their own dirty work. Jim