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    "progr

    essive" intellectual Noam Chomsky declared that occasional rumors of

    unsavory doings were the results of a CIA plot.

    A holocaust was in motion, and we turned our backs.87  We are doing

    the same today toward the ubiquitous genocide in black Africa and the

    hatred aimed against us by a host of Islamic nations we insist on calling our

    friends.  Why?

    For the same reason that one animal passing another it knows to be

    much bigger stares in another direction.  Far from possessing the pugnacity

    of an Otto von Bismarck, we have taken our knocks in the pecking order and

    we sense that we are moving down.  Like the chimp who hopes he can cling

    to his preeminence by ignoring a rival, we toy with our equivalent to a

    banana peel.  And while events of grisly horror ground down humans by the

    millions, we simply turn away.

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