Paul, I think the question here is one of tactics. It is far easier to shows that the US with aiding the Contras or that the government lied to go to war with Iraq. We have a good deal of information about what goes on there.
When we get to question about the CIA, Contras, and drug smuggling things get murkier. Even here, we have considerable information, in part thanks to John Kerry. Nonetheless, when Gary Webb put the information together he got hammered. His work was still important, but it could not have the same political force as explaining about the Contras or Iraq because the information was necessarily fuzzier. When we get to the part about the government blowing up the Pentagon or the World Trade Center, any supporting information is necessarily so weak and the emotional forces surrounding the attack so strong that even if you had fairly good evidence, I'm not sure how far you would get. On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:16:47PM -0400, Paul Zarembka wrote: > > This is a good question. I was involved in trying to expose the role of > the U.S. government (contras) in El Salvador. Was I wrong to try to help > uncover that hidden history? > --- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
