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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 923992" data-attributes="member: 2189">As to the wars in the Middle East being purely driven by religious reasons, you would be correct just as it&#039;s correct to say the wars are not over oil or that the war was a search for WMD or to promote democracy.&nbsp; In one case it was about Al Qaeda and terrorism and then in others it was not.&nbsp; Comb through news and C-Span archives and you&#039;ll see any number of leaders, officials and military leaders giving any number of reasons for a given war.&nbsp; All wars are multiplicity in reason in that so many self serving interests tend to benefit and thus at any given moment, any given reason can be true and any given reason is untrue.&nbsp; But in all of this is a narrative in which the people in whose nation the conflict takes place must be seen in a negative light and in that is where the idea of religion comes into play.&nbsp; It&#039;s also necessary for the homeland religion to play it&#039;s part in selling the narrative and in that the homeland religion becomes more secure in that a competing dogma is deposed or possible new lands secured in which the homeland religion can expand it&#039;s marketplace.&nbsp; Even in religion it&#039;s still down to pure economics.[video=youtube;5aGsBqWL2YU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aGsBqWL2YU&amp;amp;feature=related[/video]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 923992, member: 2189"] As to the wars in the Middle East being purely driven by religious reasons, you would be correct just as it's correct to say the wars are not over oil or that the war was a search for WMD or to promote democracy. In one case it was about Al Qaeda and terrorism and then in others it was not. Comb through news and C-Span archives and you'll see any number of leaders, officials and military leaders giving any number of reasons for a given war. All wars are multiplicity in reason in that so many self serving interests tend to benefit and thus at any given moment, any given reason can be true and any given reason is untrue. But in all of this is a narrative in which the people in whose nation the conflict takes place must be seen in a negative light and in that is where the idea of religion comes into play. It's also necessary for the homeland religion to play it's part in selling the narrative and in that the homeland religion becomes more secure in that a competing dogma is deposed or possible new lands secured in which the homeland religion can expand it's marketplace. Even in religion it's still down to pure economics. [video=youtube;5aGsBqWL2YU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aGsBqWL2YU&feature=related[/video] [/QUOTE]

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