From: Brian Phillips (deepbluehalo@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 13:19:39 MST
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:54:56 -0800
From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Complaint about American Media (was IRAQ: Euro Multipolarity
Shows Up)
<<<What do I think we should do?
Well, I certainly don't like a military invasion. How about a $100,000
bounty for the head and right hand of anyone who can be proved to be
either a tax collector or an administrator (or manager) of the Iraqi
government? That should stop them pretty quickly. (Perhaps pay an
equal defection bonus? Is that enough that they could find some other
country to accept them?)
Perhaps I'm being too chintzy. Given the prices of weapons these days
(and the difficulty of establishing proof) it might be cost effective to
double it to $200,000.>>>
I'm not in favor of invasion either.
I always find it interesting to invert the direction of an action and see
what I think of it then (helps with the tribalist gibbering savage that's
pulling strings in my head).
Imagine....
Osama Bin Laden (or one of his surviving assistants) announces that
in a change of tactics he will stop bombing innocent civilians and instead
will be putting a US$ 1 Million bounty on anyone who takes out a member
of the Great Satan at the (oh let's say) O-7 military OR a civilian Federal
employee at the Assistant Deputy Secretary level or higher.
I think I would have to say this would be an act of war. I suspect
it would be far more provacative as an action that killing a few thousand
innocents in a "traditional terrorist" action.
I suspect we would look seriously at nuking anyone who tried this.
Why should our enemies not take the same attitude about bounties
if the US offered them for Hussien and his crew?
Just a thought,
Brian
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