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Is the US French plan for Lebanon workable?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Griffon: [QB] One factor that people do not realize about war: it's never about religion. It's about land, property, power and glory. But as some of you have pointed out, leaders know that the average person will not war often over those things. On the other hand, if couched in mytho-poetic terms of nationalism and nation-state as religion or in religious terms, people will follow. Remember in WWI the French charged into massacre after massacre because generals said, "If you have enough elan, bullets can't harm you." Is that a religious statement or a nationalistic statement? And consider the other side of expressing mytho-poetic fervor. In WWI British propogandists superimposed the image of a child over the image of a chicken that German soldiers were roasting over a fire, the implication being that German soldiers ate children. In like fashion, Israel and Palestine have learned the fine art of mytho-poetic inspiration. So we hear the witness of one side that Jerusalem is the most important site in Judaism and the third most important site in all of Islam. All for a God who says to people who were carried into captivity, "Bloom where planted." And yet Jerusalem has a certain attraction whoever holds the keys because for 3000 years and more it has mesmerized secular and religious, pious and impious. What a great city of the world! It would make a great seat for a new UN. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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