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guillaumeb

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1. And no matter the country,

Reply to TBF (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:42 PM

Mar 2016

when you wrote:

As oppressed peoples have demonstrated throughout the ages, it is human nature to react to occupation, which often serves as a potent incubator of hate and extremism.

it will always hold true. The Irish/English conflict persists in Northern Ireland 500 years after the English first transplanted the Scots into Ireland.

The Afghanis, Vietnamese, Africans from all areas, Algeria, and on and on. All react the same to occupation and dispossession.

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And no matter the country, guillaumeb Mar 2016 #1