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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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For once, I agree with you wholeheartedly.