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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (272078)	12/19/2009 2:05:15 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Did they fly to DC and rob the CIA? Are they forcing us to give them billions in aid now? Seems you've got a touch of "victimitis" going there Hawk. Since they created the Taliban in the first place, I guess you COULD SAY, in a sense, that we're forced to pay them in order to "convince" them to alter their previous policies. But the reality is that we're buying influence, not ordering them. And when you bribe people to change their previous behaviors, or align their their interests with your own, sometimes it's not always successful. And none of these foreign intelligence services are monolithic or under centralized control. They represent "fiefdoms" of governmental power, often at odds internally with one another as they seek increasing power within their own governments. All money can do is ATTEMPT to buy influence. It is certainly no guarantee of cooperation. You people who continue to claim the CIA and/or Mossad are all powerful and can just dictate what other country's intelligence services do are just morons. Hawk