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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (233762)3/5/2002 9:31:03 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (3) of 769667
 
That is ridiculous. Most wars are contests for power or riches. Whatever religious symbolism is involved is incidental. To take recent wars, the French and Indian Wars were over divvying up North America between the British and French; the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 was over British imperial power; the Napoleonic Wars were over French aggrandizement at the expense of existing European dynasties; the Civil War was over slavery; the Franco- Prussian War was over the border, and territories like Alsace; the Mexican American War was over control of territory largely settled by Americans, but formally owned by Mexico; the Spanish American War was over the disposition of remaining Spanish colonies; World War I was over a bid by Germany for hegemony in Europe; World War II was over another such bid by Germany in Europe and Japan in East Asia. Religion has only rarely been a prime reason for war, and even then, it has arguably served as a proxy for something else. For example, during the English Civil War, it may be the religious division mainly represented the rise of upper middle class interests over aristocratic interests........
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