[New-Poetry] Quote du jour:

[Linda Sue Grimes]

If he is speaking of totalitarian regimes, it means that having an enemy closeby makes it easier for dictators to keep their citizens under control by constantly playing on those citizens' fears that that enemy is always ready to attack.  Examples are North Korea, Cuba, and Iran, whose totalitarian leaders try to keep their citizens believing that U.S. and Israel may attack them at any time without a reason.

At the present time, the "hereditary enemy on the border" speaks more relevantly for communist North Korea, with a democratic South Korea on its border, and communist Cuba, with a democratic U.S. a mere 90 miles away.  But if Iraq ever becomes a truly functioning democracy, then Iran will have its nemesis "on the border"; that is why Iran is trying so hard to keep that from happening.  Iranian leaders are using that advantage already while trying to scuttle the ship of democracy next door.

lsg
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anny Ballardini 
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  Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 2:23 PM
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  I read the quote several times and every time I got a slightly new interpretation. What does this mean to you?
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Skip Fox 
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    Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 6:12 PM
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    "The advantage of having at one's borders a hereditary enemy is immense."

    --Michael Serres



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