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why the middle east is always in the news?

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 03:55:16 No.857447 View View Reply Original Report

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throughout my entire life (i'm 28) i never heard a positive thing about this region it's always war this terrorist that

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 04:10:26 No.857457 Report

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>>857447
Because the news is propaganda. You were supposed to believe middle eastern countries were a threat to you, so they made sure that's all you heard

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 10:18:05 No.857595 Report

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>>857447

news has to be interesting, or people will ignore it. if there's a news item that says "Iceland celebrated its six hundredth year without war", nobody is going to give a damn. and the news merely reflects this.

"I like to watch things die - at a good safe distance" - Tool, "Vicarious"

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 10:24:33 No.857599 Report

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>>857447
If the public didn't associate the middle east with war and terrorism, it would be a lot harder to justify things that the government wants to do, such as military intervention, defense spending, supporting Israel, etc;.

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 10:56:42 No.857606 Report

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The middle east wouldn't be like this if the ottoman empire would still rule it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 11:18:30 No.857611 Report

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>>857457
>the news is just propaganda
>they don't report on all the wars going on in Ohio, Portugal, New Zealand, Singapore or Norway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2020 11:44:35 No.857629 Report

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>why is always war
Because there are three large populations that keep bringing up their children to believe that:
- the other two are wrong about god and this is really really important
- there's a village in bumfuck nowhere that god really cares about and it would be terrible if they had to share it
- being wrong about god is so terrible that you can't just leave people alone to be wrong about god
- god is all-powerful and can do anything but needs you to sort all this out because reasons

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