Ethan Persoff posted scans of this CIA-produced comic book indended for the good people of Granada. I have mirrored the posting here and added a little commentary of my own.

Civics Lesson 1: 22 December 2005
When I was 19, taking a bus out of New York City, I struck up a conversation with a fellow who had just served time at a Federal Penitentiary in Indiana. He described how important it was to be respectful in prison; it is how you survive. Failure to give respect, to 'dis'respect, is a serious social error that is only made by mistake among peers, or by people without social power.
His point has a reverse corollary: deliberately disrespectful behavior is not only an indication of social power, but an assertion of it. This principle holds true at multiple scales: from the individual aristocrat who insisted that the commoner yield way (and similar intimate condescensions), to discourse among social, political, and academic elites about others and their problems: 'others' being any number of different categorizations which may in themselves be dubious groupings, consistent only in that the Other is not included among those who can participate in the discourse in any substantial way. Disrespect also scales up to diplomacy. Militarily powerful countries that casually disregard the sovereignty of other states and peoples are indicating not only that they feel they can get away with such arrogance, but that for some reason they have a greater right; that they are superior to others; and that they do not depend upon the goodwill of other countries for their own long-term welfare.

It would seem that I have just stated the obvious. But the foregoing lesson, understood by an ex-con, Machiavelli, and any number of thinkers in between, suggests that the United States would benefit from a radical reversal of foreign policy. A short list of recommendations:
1. Sign onto international agreements, including:
-the International Criminal Court
-the small arms treaty and the landmines treaty
2. Return to compliance with treaties we once ratified, including:
-the Geneva Convention on treatment of prisoners of war
-the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty
-the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution (please review them against domestic wiretapping and holding prisoners without charge for more than four years). And torture violates the 8th Amendment, which does not specify whether the prisoner is held on U.S. territory or not.


Civics Lesson 2: 29 December 2005
When I was 22, taking an overnight train from Los Angeles to Phoenix, I met an old man who had the big, gnarled hands of someone who had worked hard with them for decades. At the end of our conversation, he said, "Remember: the best you can do is make the world a little bit better, however you can. That is the best that any of us can do."
I honor his advice and wisdom. I give my life to this principle.
My best hope is that through my work, research, writing, teaching, and collaboration with others, I can help make cites more livable, more resource-efficient, and better public environments in which the residents become citizens, aware of both their rights and responsibilites towards similar and different others. This public awareness can only be sustained through repeated personal contact with others, through a daily practice of coping with diversity in a civil manner. Tolerance and a cosmopolitan worldview are not abstract principles which can be adopted in isolation; they must be lived on a daily basis. They can only be lived in an environment—cultural as well as spatial—which allows for citizenship. The environment itself must also be actively maintained.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I took about two hours to process the shock of what had just happened in New York and Washington, and then I went to work. I was overseeing the construction of 193 low-income housing units in San Francisco, at a time when housing was desperately needed in SF. My work was the opposite of the terrorists: I had taken years to work through all the legal hassles and design problems to get housing built for people; the terrorists were killing and destroying in haste.
In a visceral sense, commitment to creative, constructive work is a psychological tonic for me as well. In the spring of 2003, as it looked like the United States was about to invade Iraq, many of my friends were distressed by our obvious inability to prevent our president from committing this act in our name, and burdening our descendants with the disgrace and taxes for it. The dismay in San Francisco was palpable and very understandable; but I was insulated from this grief by my work. At the invitation of Afghan-American engineers I was preparing to work for the Afghan Transitional Administration in Kabul, helping the new Ministry of Urban Development and Housing formulate policy. I do not agree with the men whose violent acts created this opportunity, but I will always be thankful that I have the chance to do creative work.