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"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."
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"Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else."
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"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."
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"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
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"Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan."
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"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."
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"There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan."
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"We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny."
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"Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan."
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"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."
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"We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare."
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"Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes."
Dying
"Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards."
Family
"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."
Family
"I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian."
Psychology
"The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older."
Intelligence
"High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment."
Environment
"I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved."
Environment
"As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president."
Leadership
"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."
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"Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now."
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