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To: Elroy who wrote (225520)	3/29/2007 10:27:12 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

No I can't really adequately summarize it. It's power is in it's entirety. It is worth reading Elroy. I will give you what I think it means- but it makes several points. The main one for me is that sometimes societies create a narrative which forces that society into a belief crisis. In this case the idea that we need to "fight them there so we don't fight them here" and that we have to win there, or we'll lose here. The author says this elevates a regional conflict to a life and death struggle for US existence. I think making that the narrative is highly illogical, and that it is silly to elevate regional conflicts- whether against communists, or nationalist, or Islamic fundamentalists, into life or death struggles for the existence of the US. I've left out a lot- and I do urge you to read the article.