For the first time in a long time, over Thanksgiving I actually talked politics with a staunch conservative - don't you love crazy distant relatives by marraige? Nothing I learned will be revelatory here, but I thought I'd point out what really crystallized for me during the debate. At least as far as foreign policy/terrorism/Iraq go, there are really only two things separating us from them. Everything else follows.
The first is that it is morally acceptable to invade countries in the Middle East just because our economy, as currently structured, relies upon cheap oil to continue growing.
The second is that Arabs are, in effect, all the same.
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