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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Rule 1. When you're having political problems at home, create a foreign enemy to distract the population.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Also, a foreign threat tends to gather the citizens together. Our post-9/11 unity allowed them to create the Homeland Security Gestapo.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Also a common liberal tactic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

who says the enemy has to be foreign?