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Posted August 27, 2001
Odd
How is it that the leader of the NLA just held a press conference longer and more thorough than George Bush has been known for in his entire presidency?
It's odd.
Illegal Drugs
[Regarding
Justin Raimondo's column of August 22, "How
to Take Over a Country":]
I wrote a thesis years ago, "The Effects of Counterinsurgency on
Tribal Populations" using Vietnam (where I served) as the study.
You are correct in an assumption that illegal drugs plays a large role
in why we get involved in such small wars. The current working model,
by the way, goes back to the French and Colonel
Roger Trinquier and the funding of his GCMA
units through heroin trade, courtesy of the Corsican
Mafia. The simple rule is it is best to fund secret and illegal military
matters through illegal profits. You can't "follow the money"
that way.
For a good read, and maybe a good column, check out Alfred
McCoy's "The
Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia." Just what do you think
Rifaat
Assad was doing taking over the Bekaa
Valley with his tank command? I could tell you the obvious but think
you would appreciate finding out on your own what is grown there.
Keep up the very good work you are doing. I am not the only one depending
on you for real journalism keeping me informed.
~ D. Moore
Return Loaned Weapons
[Regarding the August 13 column, "Defenceless Britain," by "Emmanuel Goldstein":]
I recall from history books and other sources the pleas that came to our shores from yours asking for the donation of spare firearms for home defense. This, of course, was World War II era. There was a tremendous outpouring of personal weapons from our citizenry to yours. Long guns and short guns of all sorts were sent east.
Let us fast forward to the present. I don't recall any program for the return of the aforementioned loaned weapons. With that in mind I am quite put out at the high handedness of the British government cutting up the guns the American people so generously and freely loaned to the people of Britain.
~ W. J. Bullard, American citizen