"Back in the mid-1980s, one of the architects of then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign policy told an American colleague that a less threatening USSR was doing a terrible thing to America: "depriving you of an enemy." This quote came to mind recently as I've been watching certain segments of the right wing react to the revolution in Egypt."

http://www.care2.com/causes/politics...for-the-right/

It is said that en enemy keeps a country together, and is good for the weapens industry. But bad for world peace.

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