Unfortunately, this whole "spies like us" (security council like us, capitalists like us, democrats like us, yada yada) has ended up with our resembling the Evil Empire far more than the old "former Soviet" types (and their progeny in Israel -- as outfitted with the rope Uncle Sam sold them to hang himself on) resemble us.
Useful idiots and all that rot:
Given the footprint of the jackboot tactics of terror, coercion, intimidation and "pragmatic" targeting of civilians toward some Greater Goods in death ... who can argue that we're all on the same side now?
In 1989 edition of the National Drug Control Strategy, President Bush made it official:'We must be prepared to share our knowledge and our concern with the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations and be willing to engage them in cooperative counterdrug activities". (36)In this strategy document, there was no recognition of the role of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe countries in drug-trafficking and in creating the very sickness the strategy was designed to cure.Towards the end of 1989, the DEA made a formal proposal to the Soviets for the DEA to conduct 'advanced narcotics investigations' for about 30 anti-narcotics professionals from Soviet customs, the Ministry of Interior and the KGB. As one DEA official, Paul Higdon, explained: 'We're looking at them as policemen - these guys are cops with a mission similar to ours'. Not to be outdone, US Customs is proposing a formal information-sharing agreement, similar to the ones we have with most of our Western allies'
Hear No Evil -- Part II Case in point (for comparison purposes): Vladimir Meciar's Dawn Arrest
Case in point (for comparison purposes): Modesto Boy, 11, Shot By SWAT Team
The Elian Snatch and What It Could Mean for You.
If the Compassion and Clean Hands of Population Control are less sensational than the ski masks and jackboots with which our leaders address only the illegal Drug Trade they've enabled my entire lifetime, perhaps it's because they took such care to remove the SENSATIONALISM .
We're looking at them as policemen - these guys are cops with a mission similar to ours
That we're NOT all on the same side now.
World revolution by proxy, comrade. LET'S ROLL.