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by mmjaa 2619 days ago
>Secrecy has always been a part of state diplomacy.

And this is why the world is perpetually at war. Those who have the power to stop the war-mongers (The People) don't have any idea what is really going on - thus diplomacy has been usurped from most democracies around the world, and is thus: broken.
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mike10010100 2618 days ago
> And this is why the world is perpetually at war.

No, that's because we have an entire industrial complex surrounding making war profitable.

We had state secrets far before then and there were very long periods of peace.

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mmjaa 2617 days ago
It is only possible to perpetuate America's criminal wars through state secrecy. If the American people knew the truth about these military incursions, they would be utterly outraged. It is secrets that keep the one true power - the American people - from doing something, effective, about the out of control military-industrial complex.
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mike10010100 2610 days ago
> If the American people knew the truth about these military incursions, they would be utterly outraged

The many, many, many times things have leaked with absolutely no major public reaction would show that to be false.

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