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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (99057)	5/26/2003 12:23:35 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 281500

I am currently reading "Nunca Mas", the report on the Disappeared in the Argentinian "dirty war" against terrorism in the 1970s. We had a very similar situation here in the '70s and early '80s, when Marcos was supposedly fightling a communist insurgency. The war was actually less against communism than against dissent in general, and the communists were ultimately the greatest beneficiaries. When Marcos declared martial law there were no more than 300 communist guerrillas active in the country. When he fell there were 40,000. He was our boy against the commies, a strategy that cannot be said to have been terribly effective.