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Title: This is scarry, Rubicon comes to mind
Post by: tekla on December 01, 2008, 02:20:00 PM
Read the following three articles, and then comment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217_pf.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217_pf.html)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27989275/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27989275/)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217_pf.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217_pf.html)
Title: Re: This is scarry, Rubicon comes to mind
Post by: NicholeW. on December 01, 2008, 07:03:13 PM
Actually, yes. It does. But this has been building for fifty years. Fear, fear, fear and pretty soon you'll need troops to protect everyone from their fears.

Enforcing a certain conformity not being a fear at all.

Nichole
Title: Re: This is scarry, Rubicon comes to mind
Post by: tekla on December 01, 2008, 07:12:52 PM
I always thought, in my more paranoid moments, that the goal of the war on terror, was always to bring the war home.
Title: Re: This is scarry, Rubicon comes to mind
Post by: Kaitlyn on December 01, 2008, 07:24:27 PM
Alea iacta est
Title: Re: This is scarry, Rubicon comes to mind
Post by: tekla on December 01, 2008, 07:27:35 PM
I fear for that.
Title: Re: This is scarry, Rubicon comes to mind
Post by: Mina_Frostfall on December 01, 2008, 08:40:44 PM
QuoteAlea iacta est

Oh, now I get it. By Rubicon, you mean like the Rubicon River, with Gaius Julius Caesar. I have no idea how I missed that.

(Edit: Now that I think about, it sounds like I'm talking about a movie!  :D )
Title: Re: This is scarry, Rubicon comes to mind
Post by: lisagurl on December 01, 2008, 09:16:49 PM
If they blow up the U.S. then they have no customers for their drugs and oil. Even terrorists need their enemy. We should have no fear we are getting rid of Bush.
Title: Re: This is scarry, Rubicon comes to mind
Post by: Purple Pimp on December 01, 2008, 09:57:38 PM
All democracies have to end, eventually...

Lia
Title: Re: This is scarry, Rubicon comes to mind
Post by: Fox on December 01, 2008, 10:26:53 PM
The rubicon is an all to well fitting analogy. The fear level in this country has been continuing to rise for quite a while now
Title: Re: This is scarry, Rubicon comes to mind
Post by: Kaitlyn on December 02, 2008, 09:23:52 PM
Quote from: Purple Pimp on December 01, 2008, 09:57:38 PM
All democracies have to end, eventually...

Lia

Let's put it to a vote.