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malthaussen

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3. Right, and Colin Powell refined it a few years ago
Mon Jun 3, 2013, 09:52 AM
Jun 2013

... into the Terror Industrial Complex. Which you may recall made not a ripple in the US newswaves until people from Monty Python (!) brought it up in an interview.

"Out of site, out of mind." We have discovered a way to have perpetual war without paying any price in social unrest. Neat trick, that.

-- Mal

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Ike identified the terror in 1961 orpupilofnature57 Jun 2013 #1
Right, and Colin Powell refined it a few years ago malthaussen Jun 2013 #3
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