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"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."
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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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"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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"There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan."
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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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"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
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"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and 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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"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."
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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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"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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"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."
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"If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience."
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"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
"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."
Success
"I much prefer the modern world."
World
"Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins."
Attention
"People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."
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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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"People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult."
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"Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?"
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