[lbo-talk] Is This The Real "Surge"? And What Does It Mean That It's Working?

[boddi satva]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:55 PM, boddi satva wrote:
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>> I just heard this guy for the first time today, and I'm  fascinated by
>> this because it has always seemed to me that the weapon the world
>> should be using against warlordism and terrorism is money.
>>
> But that's an evil, evil, thought.  It leads to perverted ideas like buying
> the Afghan opium crop to convert into morphine to relieve pain and thus
> winning the peasantry to eliminate the terrorism and warlordism....
>

Hah! Yeah that *would* be terrible. Imagine oppressing all those poor
peasants with money and relieving suffering to boot!


> Of course, buying part of the opposition to fight the other part has been
> standard imperial procedure for the last four millenia or so....

Indeed, so here's what I don't understand: WHY DON'T WE DO IT MORE???????

Sorry for the over-post. Having too many "evil" thoughts today.

Thanks, Shane.