Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive.
Sir Walter Scott
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none," has long been wise foreign policy advice to prevent killing in the streets of America.
Instead, we choose winners and losers abroad, support the oppression of losers, and in a futile aim to protect ourselves we go so far as to support oppression at home. Oppression of Americans on American soil is a band aid, spoken of as a way to alleviate the root cause, but which fails because we still feed the root cause. That root cause is our insistence in pursuing a worldwide interventionist foreign policy. In doing so, we pick winners and losers and support the oppression of the losers, sometimes very violently so.
Allan Stevo, Why Terrorism Happens
Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.
Charles Fort
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