It's the stuff of dictatorships. Convincing the population to act against their own best interest in order to defend authoritarian government thinking it makes them more secure.

These folks always think it's the other person who will be persecuted. That it's the other person who is losing his/her rights, his/her liberty, his/her freedom.

Imagine the howls if China invaded the US because they didn't like Bush, and bombed their houses. Do you think they'd take the long view, and believe the propaganda that China was bringing Utopia to them.

Do you think they'd overlook their dead children, their maimed brothers and sisters, their tortured spouses?

Nope. As soon as some inconvenience touches THEM they scream their guts out. Kyoto - too expensive. Improved gas mileage - I like my plywood hauler. Taxes - confiscation of private property at gunpoint.

Absolutely selfish, and uncaring. Obviously.

Arf