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Monday, July 19, 2004

Soviet intelligence and Jews

Tum Brown writes: "Are we sure the real problem isn't Christians, or maybe Americans or Europeans or Communists or males? After all far more leaders of various and sundry Western disasters have been Christians, Americans, males and so forth than have been Jews. For example, that biggest of modern Caribbean disasters, the Cuban revolution, was led by Cuban pseudo-Christian males or European origin and culture. As for the Mossad successes cited here, they're a bit pallid when set against the entire panorama of what goes on during years of confrontation and conflict, the US and its allies attracted literally dozens of pilots to defect with their jet fighters, collected tons of information on all sorts of fighter aircraft, including the Mirage, and even gathered up entire battalions of Soviet-East bloc tanks and other military hardware, and so forth. And everyone plants agents on everyone else and those who have assassinated enemies abroad have not all been Israelis. Just ask a Turk. Why even the Cubans have done so! As for who Stalin purged, if the only ones he had killed were Jews then far fewer people died in his purges than has been reported. This is a classic exercise in post hoc ergo propter hoc logic' Begin with your conclusion, select you evidence, and then present it out of context to "prove" your preconception was right, not exactly my own idea of persuasive reasoning".