To: tinamina
I think it's bureaucratic physics: a bureaucracy at rest tends to stay at rest. Pasty loner = pawn off the problem on someone else (local law enforcement, etc.) Attack by foreign state = war = everyone has to burn the midnight oil for months or years.
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10/28/2002 8:40:08 PM PST by
ellery
To: ellery
I think you're ignoring an important element in the bureaucracy's calculus: Attack by foreign state = war = everyone has to burn the midnight oil for months or years == jobs and power.
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