06-10-2010, 09:11 AM
Quote:"We're not leaving Afghanistan prematurely," Gates finally said. "In fact, we're not ever leaving at all."
I wonder if Gates' comments suggest that while US troops will pull out, US corporate mercenaries will just roll in.
Perhaps it is considered that it is now a case that private Corporate war is to replace State as a way to finally overcome domestic resistance to war-making?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14