by Dave <dwickford@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 29, 2008 at 12:50 PM
On 28 Apr, 06:58, parallax-scroll <parallaxscroll...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> against Iran over nuclear / interference in Iraq / in defense of
> Israel
> against Syria in defense of Israel
> against China over Taiwan
> against North Korea over South Korea
>
> new Cold War with Russia
> new Cold War with China
I think there is a periodicity of about 12 years. It ties in with the
economic cycle somehow. When things get bad economically you need
conflict, or else people may say you can cutback defence spending.
e.g. German rearmament in the 1930s helped the economy. (Not sure who
paid for this though.)