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title: Iraq 2004
categories:
- culture
content-tags:
- war
- fear
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The number one lesson we should have learned, but our leadership clearly does not yet appreciate: [security is a stronger human need than liberty][1].  Self-determination is about freedom from fear, and chaos and uncertainty is even more frightening than a tyrannical, but predictable authoritarian regime.

   [1]: http://boingboing.net/text/fassihi.txt

Ironically, the subtleties of this seem to be reflected not in our foreign policy, but only in political campaign strategies.
