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I just love how you can't comprehend that acting like a global predator would piss someone off. You're just miffed that they had the balls to fight back.
You're exploiting and manipulating them to help them, right?
Jesus, what loonies. Its so shocking that they can't see that. Must be that they are ignorant. Or biased. Or misunderstand your noble motives. Maybe everyone, the world over is just plain stupid?
Yes, that must be why they don't see you for the moral titans you are.
Silly, STUPID people.
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If we DIDN'T buy their oil, which is the ONLY thing they have to offer, they'd all be poorer and angrier.
Its our money which allows any of them to have any kind of standard of living AT ALL. I think if we followed your "advice," they wouldn't all happily make the transition back to subsistence-level bedouins.
Y'see that food? we paid for that. Those hotels? Us. Those desalinization plants? Those irrigation projects? Those roads and highways? That internet access? Ours, ours, ours.
Hey, I just remembered who you sound exactly like!
quote: Life of Brian: Scene 9
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
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The food they were growing quite well until your tanks rolled over the fields, that food you mean?
I don't think this happened, unless desert plants are the major crop...
Those hotels? The ones you shot at with those self-same tanks?
Including the ones they burned down, we only shot them, didn't burn them....
Those desalinization plants? Those irrigation projects? Those roads and highways?
Bombed, strafed, napalmed, run over with tanks.
That was the war before, this one we are careful about what we hit, and, I guess you are part of the we, thanks to Tony.... Also, tanks don't usually tear up the roads to badly, the rubber track pads do a nice job keeping the metal parts from digging in.
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"That was the war before, this one we are careful about what we hit..."
Yes, we're being very careful to hit only military targets, civilian targets, and our own troops. As far as I know, we haven't yet accidentally hit nothing. That's what I call precision!
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You know, I'd love to see the percentage of bombs dropped since this started that didn't hit their intended target...
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When the SWAT team storms a daycare held hostage by a deranged gunman and in the ensuing hail of bullets a full 95% of them miss the toddlers, is it a success?
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Tom, that would depend on the percentage of fatal shots that did hit the tots. If 5% were one round that winged a kid, then, yes, it would be.
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And if the only alternative is that all the kids die, then what? You have to take into account not only what happens if you act, but what happens if you don't.
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I'd prefer to know the percentage of deranged-gunman-in-daycare-centre-with-hostages-type situations that end peacefully with the perp giving himself up, before I judged one way or the other. Such things do happen, you shouldn't always have to plan a pincer movement between Hostage Rescue and the 2nd Armoured Brigade of the ATF.
quote:I'd prefer to know the percentage of deranged-gunman-in-daycare-centre-with-hostages-type situations that end peacefully with the perp giving himself up
I'll tell you that, if you tell me the percentage of kleptocratic dictatorships that end the same way.
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You might want to sign out one of those dictionary things before you start throwing around a word you have no idea how to correctly use, like "kleptocracy." Does your library have one of those nice big ones?
10 dictatorships off the top of my head that have toppled in the past thirty years without invasion by a foreign power: Indonesia Philippines Soviet Union (or count it as 15) East Germany Poland Czechoslovakia Romania Bulgaria Chile Bolivia
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