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He began talking again, picking up, more or less, where he had left off. "The Foundation has been able to establish working liaisons with most of the groups and organizations who, like us, are, each in their own way, deeply concerned about the problems that terrorism has generated all over the world."

In an almost rhythmical manner, he would take a few bites of his food, chew, swallow and, then, provide a few more details about the Bettinger Foundation's connections. A short while later, the cycle would repeat itself.

He talked about the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University, as well as the State University of New York's Institute for Studies in International Terrorism. He spent a few moments on the Foreign Policy Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. There was also mention of something called the Institute for Social and Behavioral Pathology in Chicago.

Dr. Jameson discussed the American Security Council which was said to be an extremely powerful lobbying group on behalf of the defense industry. In addition, he waxed eloquent about the Rand Corporation, a think-tank that was sponsored by the Air Force.

He gave an overview of a think-tank called the National Intelligence Studies Center that supposedly had close ties with the intelligence community. And, along somewhat similar lines, he spoke of a group calling itself the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.

Next, came a variety of foreign organizations to which the Bettinger Foundation was linked. All of them, like their American counterparts, were dedicated to containing, or eradicating, terrorism wherever it reared its hydra-like head.

There was the Institute for the Study of Conflict in Britain. In South Korea there was the World Anti-Communist League that was linked to Reverend Moon, or vice versa. Finally, he discussed a Israeli organization, The Jonathan Institute, started by Benjamin Netanyahu in memory of the brother he lost during the terrorist hostage-taking incident which ended in Entebbe, Uganda.

The last leg of the tour of Bettinger Foundation connections covered a mixed bag of groups and organizations. At one moment he talked about the Pentagon's School of the Americas in Panama that offers training for the military and police forces of Third World countries. During the next moment, he would speak about the American Enterprise Institute which, among other things, was a ideological stronghold of the politics of free market economics. A few moments later he made references to Fort Benning's training programs on counter-insurgency (anti-terrorism) techniques.

Although I had absolutely no knowledge of 95% of the organizations he discussed, a few of the ones he mentioned made me feel very uncomfortable. In particular, the Bettinger Foundation's links with the Army, Air Force, the Pentagon, the defence industry, and the intelligence community were, to me, quite unsettling.

I had finished eating and pushed away my plate. I said: "Dr. Jameson, aside from the terrorist incident concerning my family, do you know anything about my background?"

Apparently, he intuited what was on my mind. "Yes, Dr. Phelps, I'm aware you were a draft-dodger. I suspected you would have objections to some of the organizational connections that the Bettinger Foundation has. I know that more than twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the wounds on all sides of this matter still have not entirely healed.

"In fact, I deliberately took the time to run these problematic organizational affiliations by you so all our cards would be on the table. I wanted us to have an opportunity to talk about contentious issues openly and forthrightly.

"Dr. Phelps, the world is no longer capable, if it ever was, of being divided neatly into communist and anti-communist camps. Now, the world is being fractured by a complex set of forces, both internally, as well as internationally.

"There are drug lords, Russian gangs, Chinese triads, militia, ecological movements, and a plethora of religious fundamentalists, each with their own brand of terrorism. In addition, there are the Tamil Tigers, PLO, Action Directe in France, Peru's Shining Path, Basque ETA in Spain, Armenian nationalists, Sikh separatists, Red Brigade, IRA, Aum Shinri Kyo in Japan, PPK or Worker's Party of Kurdistan, neo-Nazi racists, Quebec's FLQ, Hezbollah, Hamas and a hundred other groups capable of terrorist acts.

"The barbarians are at the gates of civilization, Dr. Phelps. I would think someone like yourself might understand this much more clearly than most of us.

"Your insight into these matters is direct and experiential, not indirect and theoretical. You have come face to face with the darkness which is the real enemy of our times.

"I believe you know terrorism for what it is: unreasoning, pathological, fanatical, consumed by hatred and completely without remorse for the death and destruction that it inflicts on innocent people and communities. I believe you know these things both on a personal basis, as well as in your professional capacity as a psychologist.

"Your talk last year at the Survivors Conference gave clear, unmistakable testimony concerning the existence of such knowledge within you. I understood that and so did everyone else in the audience who really listened to what you had to say."

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