23-04-2009, 07:12 PM
Linda Minor Wrote:As an "amateur" historian, I have to agree 100% with what Tosh said. I have argued repeatedly that the OSS was not set up until 1939, and the CIA only came into being in 1947, yet they get blamed for everything bad going on in intelligence ops today. That just can't be.
And I agree with Linda's sentiment reproduced above.
Recently here in Rhode Island, Brown University made headlines by distancing itself formally from all remembrances and celebrations of Columbus, and otherwise by repudiating the explorer's deplorable treatment of the aboriginal peoples he encountered on his travels to the New World.
I publicly commented that, in doing so, Brown helps perpetuate the "Blame the Patsies" approach to history.
The admirals should not be the focus of our attentions, but rather the kings and financiers who sent them to sea. In the time of Columbus and later, and as Smedley Butler would agree, exploration was a racket.
Who here truly believes that the OSS and CIA are anything other than the tools of the kings and financiers?