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marmar

(77,052 posts) Fri Sep 19, 2014, 11:50 AM Sep 2014

Perpetual War: How Does This End?

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Perpetual War: How Does This End? (Original Post) marmar Sep 2014 OP

It ends when the CIA can't stage fundamentalist coups and we run out of boogeymen. Initech Sep 2014 #1

"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continous" Orwell J_J_ Sep 2014 #2

Well, we could let the Middle East and Europe fend for themselves and cross our fingers. randome Sep 2014 #3

Initech

(100,034 posts)

1. It ends when the CIA can't stage fundamentalist coups and we run out of boogeymen.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Fri Sep 19, 2014, 12:02 PM

Sep 2014

First it was Saddam Hussein, then it was al Qaeda, now it's Isis. We "defeat" these nemesis, then newer, scarier enemies emerge. It ends when we run out of these enemies.

J_J_

(1,213 posts)

2. "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continous" Orwell

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Fri Sep 19, 2014, 12:09 PM

Sep 2014

It will end when we end it.

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it" Eisenhower

randome

(34,845 posts)

3. Well, we could let the Middle East and Europe fend for themselves and cross our fingers.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Fri Sep 19, 2014, 12:16 PM

Sep 2014

This is the result of technology (faster communications) merging the 'Old' world with the new. Conflict is inevitable and will eventually decline. It's anyone's guess when murdering bands of killers will stop rampaging through the eastern hemisphere.

I suppose we could sit and watch on satellite TV.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
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