Well, as long as you believe that one side is "the good guys" and the other is "the bad guys", then they will have you right where they want you, rarelamb.

Life just ain't that simple, but they need you to think it is to play "divide and conquer" effectively.

I mean, why else would kids don a uniform or strap on a suicide bomb and go out and try to kill completer strangers who never did anything to them?

They have to believe those strangers are evil, don't they? Otherwise they wouldn't do it.

That's how divide and conquer works. You convince the young and naive that someone else is "evil" and must be stopped. They go out and kill for you. Then the young and naive from those people who got hurt come back and they do it right back to your people. And it goes on and on and on...

The innocent die.

Whaddya think? I don't call it "special interests", I call it insanity.

A sane "special interest" is one that benefits all parties mutually...not one at the expense of the other.