Re: [pf] Telling my daughter about Iran-Contra

>>On Thu 11/10/2001, Jill wrote:
>>
>>> Now can someone summarize the Osamagate article ...
>>
>At 12:09 PM 11/10/2001, Mike Weber wrote {at:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/2001IV/msg00228.html } :-
>>Here's a try:
>>
>>The US government, mainly via the CIA, with additional resources from the
UN and the international heroin trade, is, as we write, supporting (in
Macedonia, as documented, and who knows where else) the very same al Qaeda,
purportedly headed by Osama, which it is ostensibly trying to destroy by
bombing Afghanistan.
>>
>>In other words, Washington has other fish to fry in Central Asia (and
elsewhere, as its recent warnings to the UN confirm) besides the announced
intent to "destroy al Qaeda."
>>
At 14:14 11/10/2001 -0400, tully wrote {at:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/2001IV/msg00236.html } :-
>
> ... Its clear that these people still don't believe that the US is guilty
of dirty dealings with other countries or that there are many people in the
world who hate us for valid reasons. 
>
>What does anyone think about us getting together to write a "primer" on US
foreign policy, something that hits all the main historical points briefly,
each in a way like Mike did above?  Perhaps each point could be even
briefer, a single sentence or phrase, like describing the Chile situation
by saying that the US was responsible for removing a democratically elected
president and replacing him with a military dictator?  We don't even need
to put names down.  Keep it super simple yet succinct.  And while I hate to
say it, I think we'd need to write it so that a 3rd grader could understand
it before anyone would really pay attention to it.
>

At 14:37 12/10/2001 +1300, Charlotte wrote to GV-NZ, with Subject:
[GV]Opinions on Americans being dumbed-down: what to do :-

I agree with you here.  Even if each and every person in society is
intelligent,
it does not mean that society as a whole will be.  In order to get mass
messages
out to people we need to treat people as 3rd graders because society as a
whole
is dense.   The important thing we want to ensure is that people are
captured by
the message that you want to get across so that they then desire to know more.
The key would be to make the message hit a nerve to get people talking
about it.
If the general public are overloaded with complicated information to begin
with
they will turn over to puppets like Mr Bush which they find easy to
understand.

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sent-on by David.

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