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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (550696)2/18/2010 12:51:13 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1574336
 
Defense and security are at least the core function of a government.

Nope. One of several core functions.

Perhaps one of several important functions, but they are the real core. Without them you don't even really have a government. Governments have done a wide variety of additional things on top of this effort but no government can stick around without providing security (if its an abusive government, it mostly provides security for itself, but even than it has to provide some security against external threats, and some suppression of crime, if its going to last)
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