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Originally posted by Cowperson@Sep 7 2004, 12:11 PM
Maybe the answer is the Bill Maher Method - hire other people to kill them.
Sponsor right wing dictatorships that co-operate with your geo-political aims and allow them to brutally suppress their people.
That's what Maher said in a recent interview the USA should get back to doing. That way they wouldn't have to invade places. They could keep out of other people's affairs by keeping dictators in power.
Kind of keeps your hands clean. No muss, no fuss.
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Yeah but the problem with that is it already happened, and look where we are today.
They have cozied up with some pretty unsavory, oppressive characters over there and it didn't stop terrorism. The Shah of Iran was not a good guy. Neither was Saddam. I wouldn't want to live in Saudi Arabia under that bunch and we know terrorists come from there. The "pay someone else to do it" idea was the beginning of Osama and all his friends as well, wasn't it?
I'm not smart enough to have a solution to this mighty complex problem, but that doesn't seem like a good one. Forget all the moral objections or whatever I might have, I just don't think it works (worked).