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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (248807)11/19/2007 8:27:50 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You are right of course. There is nothing like a passionate hatred to give "meaning" (albeit a fake one) to an otherwise empty life. The kinds of people you are talking about of course would never hate something that they can do anything about (such as hunger or crime rate or racism in their own neighborhoods) but rather concern themselves with issues in countries they have little if any direct interaction with and can do very little about (this allows for the "party" to go on forever...until an "unfortunate" event like the end of the cold war ruins it for them and void of their empty life returns.)

But if you back trace through the conversation, I think you'll see that I meant it is the livelihood of the government and their cronies that is dependent on fear mongering and hate that lets them use "national security" fleece the public. They are the people you'll never manage to get to see why there are better uses for the public funds.
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