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Alan Flanagan's avatar

Refreshing read mate. I get a sense of late that the levels of hate and anger in the West, often on issues they have no nexus to, reflects the comfort and safety of distance. It’s fine to hold pseudo-radical-chic beliefs and pound the drum when one is insulated from the ramifications.

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Quarrelsome Life's avatar

Thanks Alan.

And I couldn't agree more. It is all too easy to treat political conflict as spectator sport when it is happening in over there in Far Away Land.

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