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On Fri, 11/20/15, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Absurdities of the Official Traveller Universe
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Friday, November 20, 2015, 9:15 AM

 On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at
 2:09 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
 And it
 always depends on who they  think is the bonafide
 BOGEYMAN(tm).

 One I ran into one conspiracy nut
 recently who stated flatly that the CIA was the most
 incompetent organization ever created. I replied,
 "Well, since it's an organization devoted to
 conducting classified operations, it's been around for
 some sixty years and the public has only ever heard about a
 handful of it's failures, then I would say that it's
 *very* competent at one of two things: either *actually*
 performing it's mission or else covering up that it
 *isn't* performing it's mission."
 [NOTE: I considered bringing up
 Charlie Wilson's War as an example of a spectacularly
 successful covert CIA operation, but then I decided that
 since Wilson had to almost bodily drag the agency into that
 effort and further that the U.S. government subsequently and
 equally spectacularly failed to win the peace would have
 rather undermined my point.]  
 --
 Richard Aiken

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There were all kinds of stuff posted when the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination rolled around.

Some were pretty good.

One that I read on 'Yahoo News' stated that the tone was set when a columnist published an editorial the next day assigning the blame to those he personally considered to be the 'bad guys'.

Another article from same posited that this had become a sort of psychological exercise that people projected their personal demons onto.

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