Just imagine you're rulers of a country. Like all rulers - for the last five thousand years till now anyway - you're necessarily privileged, cheating, and probably pervert. You find that occupying your angry neighbors' border areas will not bring `security'. You then find that relinquishing your angry neighbors' border areas will not bring `security' either. [But trying those operations has caused the deaths and maimings of thousands of innocent people - making those neighbors even more angry] There are only two (apparently) possible solutions remaining - 1) combine with a corrupt, psychotic and merciless `superpower' to dominate the Earth, and imprison, torture or kill all those who want equality or freedom; 2) learn to behave decently and honestly towards all people, and thereby make peace with your neighbors. Which solution do you think privileged, cheating and pervert rulers choose? Right. That's what's happened for the last five thousand years or so. Check "Fake Causes" in a search-engine to find out why rulers want greed for themselves and always endanger their own populations - which the rulers privately think of as `sheep' and somehow `sub-human'. ------------------------------------------------- "Perceptions" note: All `western' rulers - except maybe parts of Scandinavia, Amazonian tribes, and New Zealand, are proven tax-thieves and liars, and heavily contaminated with criminal perverts in authority. Maybe check http://www.perceptions.couk.com/altevol.txt ------------------------------------------------- FURTHER REFERENCES GO - "search perceptions" - in SEARCH-ENGINE file-ID www.perceptions.couk.com/question.txt