Is this in relation to Canadians and Americans? Taliban or Afghan government? or Sartar and the Lunar Empire?
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> Survival, wealth, status, and traditional social arrangements are powerful motivations for making an accommodation with a hated enemy. And an oath to traitorous king is still an oath.
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> Jeff
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> > > > I just read an article in The Economist by a guy who was riding around
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> > > > the Sartar rebels, I mean Taliban, who reports that in some clans half
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> > > > the government and half join the resistance, so that whoever wins the
> > > clan
> > > > will be fed.
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> > > > THAT is a pasion for family.
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