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TwilightGardener

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1. What is this weird recurring theme of yours that Americans are "cowering in fear"?

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2014, 10:07 AM

Sep 2014

I don't see anyone doing anything different. Do you live in America? Are people hiding in their homes and refusing to fly in planes and stockpiling toilet paper where you live? Because it's not happening where I live.

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America has enshrined in its national security doctrine a right to use force at its own discretion. [View all] Fred Sanders Sep 2014 OP

What is this weird recurring theme of yours that Americans are "cowering in fear"? TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #1

American fear is subliminal, it creates the basis of war, and the military will deliver us from the Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #3

Um, I don't think so. Most Americans only started paying attention to Iraq TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #5

My paternal grandmother used to say malaise Sep 2014 #2

Having hundreds of military bases throughout the world proves your point...when someone, Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #4