Rational Discussion of Threats and bush's deal

[Shane Mage]

>  (Vidal asked recently why Bush just doesn't
>buy off bin Laden, bribe him to cease and desist. "It worked for Julius
>Caesar," he said.)

I don't think so.  Not in Gaul, where the tribes that made peace and
accepted subsidies betrayed him and joined up with Vercingetorix.
And certainly not in Rome, where the senatorial hard-liners (Sextus
Pompeius, Cato the Younger)  refused the most generous amnesty
offers and continued an enormously damaging civil war for two years
after Pharsalus, while the Pompeian opportunists (most notoriously
Marcus Brutus and Cicero) accepted clemency and then conspired
to subvert his reforms, and ultimately they murdered him.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all 
things."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64