Petty wars occur when the real motives of a war are faked, so to hide
the fact that they remain good old-fashioned plundering and pillaging.

Now you're just applying words to a current situation. Booooooooo. No
attention span.

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Actually that's what I had in mind all along. While politicians turn a
blind eye to the environmental crisis, they engage in petty wars over
oil.

This is a picture of our leaders...

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders...tten/moai.html