Re:Whistleblowers are not traitors
by psadauskas on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @11:22AM
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This may be extremely naive of me, but I really hope that within my lifetime those notions ("our county", "country's enemies") well have ended. The imperialistic nationalism of Europe culminated in WW1&2, and now they mostly get along. Maybe the rest of the world can, too, in the next 50 years (without another cataclysmic war).
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Re:Whistleblowers are not traitors
by if_by_whisky on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @11:26AM
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Is that to say that nationalism among EU member states is a thing of the past? I'm skeptical that EU citizens are collectively so enlightened.
Re:Whistleblowers are not traitors
by psadauskas on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @12:05PM
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The national pride is still there, sure, but the circumstances that brought about two world wars are not. I just mean that (generalizing) the French don't view the Germans the same way Americans view the Middle East.