[LINK] bin Laden is dead

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:29 AM 4/05/2011, Karl Auer wrote:
>[1] That may be because the US needs enemies to keep people distracted
>from the difficulties at home. The enemy is dead, long live the enemy.
>It's not a technique unique to the US; most governments prefer to
>manufacture a cheap economy-driving external threat rather than have to
>deal with real, but less tractable problems.

I don't disagree with that. Check out a book called The Next 100 
Years by George Friedman. It will curl your hair AND your toes. The 
geopolitics of this century is quite -- I don't know what to say -- 
cynical? self-serving (what else is new -- National Interests, 
anyone?)? outside the cognitive structures of normal people?

Jan



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