50 year war.

jaguar · 01-04-2002, 06:11 PM

Bush made comment a couple of weeks ago saying that this "war on terrorism" might last 50 years, now i personally don't think it'll take 50 years to decimate Al QUeda, and waht interst is it to the US if Basque Sepratists blow up cars? I think its more Orwellian. "War is Peace". External war is internal peace. The cold war gave the US a nicely defined enemy, the evil communist Russia, and war helps band nationalistic sentiment (look recently). Obviously Russia has gone away, now mabye the Government sees this whole Terrorism thing as a good chance to make a new big enemy to use as a scapegoat for passing laws etc, in the same way the Cold War was. Opinoins?

01-04-2002, 06:11 PM	#1
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	50 year war. Bush made comment a couple of weeks ago saying that this "war on terrorism" might last 50 years, now i personally don't think it'll take 50 years to decimate Al QUeda, and waht interst is it to the US if Basque Sepratists blow up cars? I think its more Orwellian. "War is Peace". External war is internal peace. The cold war gave the US a nicely defined enemy, the evil communist Russia, and war helps band nationalistic sentiment (look recently). Obviously Russia has gone away, now mabye the Government sees this whole Terrorism thing as a good chance to make a new big enemy to use as a scapegoat for passing laws etc, in the same way the Cold War was. Opinoins? __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

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