runinng relay races with jack

[Michael Rostonthe eminently practical]

in response to:

>also amy provides the turns to new bush "pro-islam" shift as >well as the orientalist
islam studies program at the CSIS. >fucks, napoleon had an "islam studies" program too.
that you >would even suggest that somehow because the CSIS has an "islam >studies" program
that it is "liberal" betrays the trickery of >your evil orientalist ways suckering the
impressionable to 
>think that this means the US military and the CSIS have become >forces in favor of a
"peaceful islam" in accordance with >imperialist military projection into the region all
while on a >racist CRUSADE, george bush avid reader of the koran's words. 
>
>yeah, they already fucked over Africa, the Middle East, and >Southeast Asia along these
same "BENIGN" paths INCLUDING >RESEARCH INSTITUTE/THINK-TANK FRONT JOBS

Sitting at my think-tank/research institute front job today, I thought about how nice
it would be if my dad and mom paid me to sit around and read Gandhi and Foucault all day
and then conclude that people of different socio-economic means have been tricked into
false liberation.  I also found this gem second from the top on CSIS's web site today.
 It discusses CSIS's research on Islam, argues that the US created the current terrorism
problem that exists in our world through its funding of the mujahadeen against the Soviets
in Afghanistan, and concludes that the US needs to rethink its military power and how
it affects Islamic societies.  

http://www.csis.org/prevdip/news_0110.htm

CSIS looks less and less monolithic the closer you look at the whole organization and
the further away you look from Tony Cordesman's Strategic Studies Program.  

I suppose it's just another relay of intervention.  Or maybe those idiots Korcok and Elliot
should be planning a protest of CSIS by the debate community for it being too left-wing?


I have the baton...

Michael Roston
-underneath all currents

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not essentially a right."

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