[alicebot-aiethics] FWD: War business

[Juvenall]

For all it matters she could be from Michigan. Members of the local branch
of the Michigan Militia were passing out flyers with information very
similar to her letter on them. It just goes to show that everyone likes a
good cover up story...heh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Fahey [askrom]" <askROM@graphpaper.com>
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Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 1:06 PM
Subject: RE: [alicebot-aiethics] FWD: War business


> > The real questions are, how many more people in her area
> > believe as she does, and where are they getting their
> > information.  I would hate to think this is information
> > passed on by her government.
>
> Well, she appears to be from Thailand, so I'd guess that her theory is
> not from her government, but rather is the product of her association
> with a very large international class of people who have a deep mistrust
> of the American government's motives (a group with which I often find
> myself sympathetic). Not that I believe a word of the load of crap she's
> presenting as "facts" (although it is probably safe to say that American
> defense contractors gave each other high-fives and smoked some cuban
> cigars in their board rooms on September 12).
>
> Today's episode of the NPR Radio program "This American Life" opens with
> an extended interview with a Palestinian-American family who gets their
> news exclusively from arab satellite news programs. Very scary stuff -
> for example, it was widely believed in the Arab world that 4,000
> Israelis didn't show up for work in the WTC September 11 because the
> attack was planned by Israel.
>    http://www.thislife.org/ra/196.ram
>
> It made me think of two things:
>
> 1) I think it might be a good idea for the US to work a hell of a lot
> harder in making sure that the Arab media hears our side of the story,
> instead of the US just ignoring the groundswell of anti-American public
> opinion. Ironically, the Arab news media is firing up the Arab public.
> In this information age can't rely on friendly dictators to quell public
> opinion any more.
>
> 2) Although I have almost complete faith that Western news media is the
> best and most accurate in the world, and the least likely to publish/air
> irresponsible rumors or crazy lies, it still makes you wonder how much
> CNN, etc, conveniently ignores certain issues because they think we
> don't want to hear it (i.e., how much America is hated).
>
> -Cf
>
>
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