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... to your latter remarks. Our own civil war, for example, which technically was a war between the United States and the seceded CSA. We are today still feeling the effects of that conflict between peoples.
Some of the most horrible, brutal modern-day wars have been between peoples--between the Hutu and the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge against the urban people of Cambodia, what is now happening in the Congo. All of these horrible events had leaders of some description, true, but the animosity of one people for another drove those conflicts to the levels they attained, rather than their being organized from the start with special interests in mind. In fact, the abject mindlessness in the degree of the killing is implicit.
As for thinking globally, the watchword is still to act locally. United States policy drives much of the globalization debate, so what we do here, politically, has global effects. The rest of world knows that--that's why the rest of the world was so generally dismayed with Bush's re-election.
Cheers.
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