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Originally Posted by aklim
Kill faster? Look at the buffalo. We wiped them out to almost extinction.
Depends on whether you are willing to do whatever it takes to win or whether you are trying to play by a set of rules nobody follows.
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So genocide is the answer? I suppose I shouldn't be surprised to hear you endorsing that.
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Originally Posted by aklim
And if they pick up the slack, are they going to do it in a way that benifits us? I doubt it. Why would they? Would we? I wouldn't.
In any case, you just decribed the fairy tale world. Remember Little Red Riding Hood? The wolf bothered her and the woodcutter came and killed the wolf and never asked for a reward or anything and LRRH lived happily ever after. In our case, we are hoping that China and India pick up the slack, leave us to live happily ever after and they will go away once the problem is solved. Yeah, right.
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It doesn't matter if they pick up the slack. The point is that if we don't need their oil we are far less involved in that messy region.
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Great idea. Old but great. It worked so well in Afghanistan. Remember OBL? He took our intelligence, money and most importantly, stinger missiles. Without those stingers, the Russian choppers would have chopped them away to bits of flesh. Did they remember us with fondness? Doubtful. If we did it, they would assume we are tryin to buy them off. If Hezbollah did it, it is muslim charity and thus free of taint.
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Those Stinger missiles were delivered late in the game. The jihadists knew all about them from the beginning and were practically begging for them from what I understand of that conflict. They were not delivered until late because we (correctly) estimated that they would turn the tide and the Russians' days in Afghanistan would be numbered once the Stingers came into play. We wanted Russia in Afghanistan as long as possible because it was a money pit for them. It worked out for us better than we could have hoped.
We acted in our own self interest and so did everyone else in that conflict. Gratitude doesn't come into play.