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...triumph of the West was in many ways a bloody shame -- a story of atrocity and rapine, of arrogance, greed and ecological despoliation, of hubristic contempt for other cultures and intolerance of non-Christian faiths. Nonetheless, as Hugh Thomas argues in A History of the World, "it is obvious that it is Western Europe ((and)) North America which, since the 15th century at least, for good or evil, ((have)) provided the world's dynamism...
...wings of his elite friends and his football victories, but he soon crashes to the harsh earth of reality. At a victory dinner, Dillon learns from a guest that David is Jewish. Soon the adulation of his peers and the admiration of his coolness quickly transforms into contempt for his religion...
...obstruction of justice, he now faces a retrial at the hands of special prosecutor Craig Gillen. Just as he did last time, Gillen can be expected to put the entire CIA on trial by charging that George was merely the pawn in an agency that had consistently shown contempt for Congress, for due process and ultimately for the American people...
They had not. George's mentor, former Director William Casey, was legendary for his utter contempt of Congress. The same attitude was expressed by former senior CIA officer Ray Cline, who complained after George's indictment last fall that "the only thing Clair has ever been accused of is lying to Congress." In the eyes of some agency veterans, Alan Fiers, chief of CIA's Central American Task Force, who admitted his own guilt in lying to Congress, was a "turncoat" for testifying against George; current spy chief Thomas Twetten was deemed a hero for stonewalling...
INTELLIGENCE: A Legacy of Contempt...