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Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ
No. It's almost too small.
Turn your back on something horrible, and it'll eventually bite you on the ass.
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I'm inclined to agree with this, actually. Years of suffering begets people with a grudge against those whom they think are "responsible" for that suffering. And more often than not they look to the developed West, the countries that colonised them, leeched their natural resources for their own profits and installed their own infrastructures for their own benefit, and to hell with the indigenous populace.
And yes, it does eventually come and bite us on the bum. Would Iran be so much of a "threat" to us (perceived or real) if we hadn't interfered in their country for decades to control their natural resources to our own ends? We can expect more of the same from African nations as we continue to remove people from land they have farmed for centuries because Del Monte or some other big transnational has done a dodgy deal with their greedy government to lease land that was never the government's property in the first place, so they can take control of the fruit grown there. But hey, at least the locals are allowed to work for Del Monte and earn money to buy the fruit they used to pick for free....
Simplistic I know, but it's a start down the road of explaining what I mean.