In a secret facility known as "Penny Lane", the CIA turned kidnapped terror suspects into double agents:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/penny-lane-gitmos-other-secret-cia-facility
These were the "better Indians" of the Global War on Terror.
Upon meeting General Philip Sheridan in 1869, Comanche Chief Tosawi reputedly told him, “Me, Tosawi; me good Injun,” to which Sheridan supposedly replied, “The only good Indians I ever saw were dead”. History remembers this exchange with the infamous phrase “the only good Indian is a dead Indian”.
When something is “good”, it is often accompanied by other things that are “better” and “best”. To America the only good Indian may be a dead Indian, but a better Indian is one who helps America kill other Indians. And the best Indian of all is one who forgives America for killing his children, raping his wife, stealing his possessions, exterminating his people, and eradicating his way of life.
As it was then, so it is now. Everywhere the evil spirit of America travels, we seek better Indians to help us kill the other Indians. That was the strategy of our forefathers during the French and Indian Wars and subsequent westward expansion, when they would arm one Indian tribe and turn them loose to attack another. That was our strategy in Iraq, where General Petraeus armed the warring Sunni and Shia militias to help them kill each other. That’s our strategy in Afghanistan, where “better Indian” Hamid Karzai helps us murder his countrymen. That’s also our strategy in Syria, where we are arming so-called insurgents and encouraging them to attack the troops of a legitimate government. America loves this strategy because it always works. We usually can find pent-up hatreds to exploit, and when we cannot it’s quite easy to create them.
[Refer to this blog post for additional discussion - http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/05/still-seeking-very-best-indians.html]
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