>>The American Revolution wasn't Americans killing their own. They were fighting the nasty and alien British under the nasty and alien king.
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>Gee, and I thought we were British subjects at that time....

Only technically. Certainly not in common attitude.

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>>>I was primarily speaking about today, not over a hundred years ago. I don't recall reading about the US, Canada, GB, France, Italy, etc being involved in genocide such as I cited in the other examples.
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>>That's true unless you include WWII when many countries were turning over their countrymen. Agreed that was not necessarily a government edict, and I suppose it is different. Although, Spain, for example is usually considered a 'western' country, but their record is not so hot under Franco. And that is well into the latter half of the 1900s.
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>True, but by and large, I stand by my statements.

And 'by and large', I don't really disagree with you. My original point still stands though. Upping the price of food won't mean a thing to the countries we'd be targeting - they aren't 'western' countries, and if need be, they won't have any problem suppressing any complaints from their populace.