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It comes down to two fairly simple economic factors:-

1) The need to have access to oilfields

2) The need to maintain a gawdamighty military budget

After the harum-scarum about Islam dies down (and it will) we'll all be invited to get worried shitless about the rise in practising kindness, goodwill, and civility to our human brethren, because it may lead to us all agreeing to live peacefully with each other, and then what the hell use would all those bombs, gases, missiles, and messengers of destruction be? Thousands of weapons craftsmen would be out of jobs, while designers of even more brutal aircraft might have to turn to re-designing ploughshares.

[QUOTE="krizon, post: 2070655, member: 64950"] It comes down to two fairly simple economic factors:- 1) The need to have access to oilfields 2) The need to maintain a gawdamighty military budget After the harum-scarum about Islam dies down (and it will) we'll all be invited to get worried shitless about the rise in practising kindness, goodwill, and civility to our human brethren, because it may lead to us all agreeing to live peacefully with each other, and then what the hell use would all those bombs, gases, missiles, and messengers of destruction be? Thousands of weapons craftsmen would be out of jobs, while designers of even more brutal aircraft might have to turn to re-designing ploughshares. [/QUOTE]

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