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Originally posted by SLM3
You talk like so many people out there, assuming there's always some sort of evil out to get all of us and if the US turned its back for one second legions of evil doers would overun Canada.
SLM3
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This brings up a very interesting point and that is the American culture of fear.
It's not unique to the USA, but it pervades American society.
The idea that your neighbour wants to shoot you and rob you, therefore, you must be armed to the teeth. The idea that every other country in the world envys you, and wants to destroy you and take your way of life away from you. Therefore, as a country, we must be armed to the teeth.
It is ingrained in the american way of thinking, "the wolf is always knocking at the door" - Don Henly.
This culture of fear has been the cornerstone of American politics for the last 50 years. It has fed the industrial military complex to it's bloated insatiable self.
And it has people convinced that it is natural.