On Sep 8, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Nick Arnett quoted:
(...) researchers will inevitably say that the body count
has crossed 100,000.
All of this madness to stop a madman, Saddam Hussein.
I think it's a small price to pay for the removal of a tyrant.
What is the body count of a tyranny? Argentina's military
dictatorship of the 70s had a body count like that.
Brazilian's current drug civil war may have a body count of
this magnitude. If there was a way to trade 100,000 and solve
the drug problem, I think I would accept this price.
Alberto Monteiro
Alberto,
I assume you'll toss your own family into the furnace first just to be
sure we have enough to cover your ethically challenged accounting
methods. What if this nice round conceptually dead-simple number of
100K isn't enough dead and the battles continue decades, and numbers
reach millions? When is enough dead enough? When all you and yours
lay at your feet? Are you prepared for that, because this is a logical
{and time-tested!} course of action your apparently willing to embrace.
Having lived in Holland I've seen what happens when you remove the
profit from drug-running: the mafioso go away. The guns go away.
Petty crime goes down as junkies don't need expensive per-diem fixes.
Same thing with prostitution.
Ghandi said something appropriate {roughly}:
" War will not stop war until darkness makes darkness go away"
- Jonathan -
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