Reply #20: Of course not - and I think we're in grave danger of...

[Colorado Blue]

losing sight of reality with all these theories about the CIA.

The other problem associated with forgetting the reality of terror is this: it blinds us to the problems within the terrorists' communities, or within their own minds, that are leading them to such desperate acts. We can't go pointing the finger at CIA, or Mossad, or any other intelligence group, without simultaneously muffling the voices of the terrorists. Terrorism is by nature a political act. Although I believe there is no justification for terror there are certainly causes and we need to keep focused on those and not get all confused by smoke and mirrors of own making. To pretend the terrorists are all gone and that CIA is doing all the evil is to be a sitting duck.

That isn't fair to us or to the people who are injured and killed by terrorists - AND it doesn't help us figure out how to help solve the problems that lead to terrorism. Not that all of them can be solved - some terrorism is political in nature and maybe can be worked out, such as in Ireland, although that has taken several hundred years; and some is a matter of religious and/or social conflict and some is just flat irrational. Nevertheless it is interesting to me that CIA has finally figured out that starting a war in Iraq is leading to increased threats of terrorism, duh.

I have other thoughts on the matter but I am falling asleep

Peace!