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Originally posted by jaguar
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?
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I don't think so. We'd like to believe this, but you're imagining the world from your perspective, and not from theirs.
In each individual's own world, they are at the center of everything, and are always morally correct. Noone thinks to themselves, "I'm going to deceive the American public. I want them to have an 'enemy', so that they will not question me." They think, "I am patriotic. I love my country, and I must defend it from this new enemy at all costs". The Orwellian stuff is just a consequence.