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Show me where globalization is thick with network connectivity, financial transactions, liberal media flows, and collective security, and I will show you regions featuring stable governments, rising standards of living, and more deaths by suicide than murder. These parts of the world I call the Functioning Core, or Core. But show me where globalization is thinning or just plain absent, and I will show you regions plagued by politically repressive regimes, widespread poverty and disease, routine mass murder, and?most important?the chronic conflicts that incubate the next generation of global terrorists. These parts of the world I call the Non-Integrating Gap, or Gap.

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for instance anna.... amerikkka? what are you implying? that american politics are run by the KKK or something? what's that supposed to mean?

the swastika on the american flag is just downright silly.

here in reality, america is helped STOP the nazis and is now the biggest supporter of zionism and the jewish state of israel. white supremascist groups and militias are feared by the government and closely watched, even infiltrated when possible by the FBI.

you're living in a fantasy world.

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for instance anna.... amerikkka? what are you implying? that american politics are run by the KKK or something? what's that supposed to mean?

the swastika on the american flag is just downright silly.

here in reality, america is helped STOP the nazis and is now the biggest supporter of zionism and the jewish state of israel. white supremascist groups and militias are feared by the government and closely watched, even infiltrated when possible by the FBI.

you're living in a fantasy world.

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Never once did i mention the Nazis in my post, nor did i say that politics are run by the KKK organization. The only fantasy is your assertion that i did. Since simpletons like you have nothing to defend a position which you dont even bother to state, you have resorted to inserting text into my post as grounds to dismiss it.

And BTW, the flag stays.

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Hmmm

"simpletons like you"???

Can you read?

Did you bother to read the notice about flaming?

I am notifiying a moderator. Your opponents in a debate aren't "simpletons". Are you looking to get banned?

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Hmmm

"simpletons like you"???

Can you read?

Did you bother to read the notice about flaming?

I am notifiying a moderator. Your opponents in a debate aren't "simpletons". Are you looking to get banned?

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As if you werent the first one to flame me in your post with all the idioticons...look whose talkin'. And this is just my opinion;  but i also consider dismissiveness a form of flaming, especially when its based on something i never said.
   

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OIC, we are the one who likes to play "let's change my post before someone sees it".

Careful Anna, you get more points for constructive logic than using dismissive epitaphs like "AmeriKKKa" and especially calling your opponents names!

Cheerio, Deario,

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There is a lot of solid info in there and logical, rational thought. Like it or not the global economy is the future. And as mentioned in the article, the security of the future will rely on mutual dependance. And the nations that isolate themselves from that will suffer failing economies and will breed terrorism and trouble in general. The world continues to get smaller and I don't think there is any way around globalization. And in light of that I don't see how you can deny or argue the rationality of that article. Short of a collapse of civilization and total anarchy anyway. Some of you might favor anarchy and thats all good until the guy with the bigger gun comes to rape your daughter.

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