News Alert: Brother of Afghan President Is on C.I.A. Payroll, Officials Say

[rich]

was just watching bits of the documentary Hearts and Minds 1974
the karmic adjustment this country is on the hook for will last centuries
not that we've really changed all that much

this from a guy against the war. (its like the war over there  is
making sure your buddies aren't aced and massive amounts of isolated
incidents of local vengeance and retaliations...like Vietnam. there's
no apparent overall strategy and thousands of opinions...like Vietnam)

"I'm not some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in
love," Hoh said. Although he said his time in Zabul was the
"second-best job I've ever had," his dominant experience is from the
Marines, where many of his closest friends still serve.

"There are plenty of dudes who need to be killed," he said of al-Qaeda
and the Taliban. "I was never more happy than when our Iraq team
whacked a bunch of guys."

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Bailey wrote:
>>
>> as Penny the DA said, are we being paranoid enough?
>>
>> Let's remember the close relationship between the CIA and the media -
>
>  . . .
> We may wonder why we are reading a detective fiction or why an author may
> write one, especially IV which appears to resemble Duchamp's urinal. What
> actually is there to detect other than the lies of our political leaders?
>  Get it?
>
> It might be useful to remember that the CIA is just the US President's
> private army. No big deal.  There are a number of other three letter
> agencies.  DIA and NSA for starters.
>
>