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irishcoffee on July 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on ...

I think here you're assuming wealth was the limited resource referred to, were it might be other things.

javert on July 18, 2012 [–]

I can't think of something they can justifiably compete over, except security, in which case it's only jusitifable when the other party is initiating threats.

danneu on July 18, 2012 | [–]

How about global clout?

javert on July 19, 2012 | | [–]

That does not seem like a justifiable thing to compete over, to me.

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