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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (9369)11/8/2001 5:18:50 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>> ...folks who don't feel that they're getting cut in on the action... << [I'm quoting you here, Raymond]

These would largely be disaffected intellectuals or frustrated power-seekers in the ROW, right? The large majority of those populations have more immediate, less ambitious concerns, and their relative lack of personal sophistication in geo-political matters leaves them easily swayed and influenced by anyone with simple answers, a forum of some sort, and a congruent presentation. A minority willing to exploit a less informed and less thoughtful majority, in other words, for their own less than altruistic purposes. This is a dynamic that is always going to be with us, no matter what. Somebody will always be on the outside looking in.

America as the Great Satan is a metaphor in hands of those who seek to use it as such that will remain largely unaffected by whatever we do or however we act in the ROW.
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