Re: Libertarian theory breaking down

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 06:41:39 MST

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    >Amara, while I wouldn't dream of second guessing you on astronomical
    >matters, I'd hope you'd defer to people who actually have military
    >experience in such matters as defense.

    I believe that the landscape of (trans)human lives are much larger
    than a mudball of some humans acting like monkeys (Bush being the
    head baboon). I find your view extremely limiting and self-defeating,
    Mike, ignoring your arrogance for the moment. I wonder if you read
    any of the articles that Dan posted and my one follow-up.

    Amara

    P.S.
    However there are a few monkeys of a different variety:
    http://www.omuriqui.hpg.ig.com.br/ingles/index2.htm
    I wish humans had common ancestors with them

    P.S.S Your words here are nonsense, you know.
    >The Soviet experience in Afghanistan is a good example of such a
    >conflict, yet it can be seen from the US experience there a decade
    >later that a certain degree of technical superiority, in both equipment
    >and training, can largely eliminate any advantage the local anarchists
    >may have once had, even when the conqueror is under both media scrutiny
    >and feels bound by international standards of behavior.

    There was almost no "media scrutiny", and the Afghans defeated the
    Soviets with guerilla tactics, intelligence, and after the moderates
    died or escaped, a brutal extremism that was the end result of a decade
    of fighting. Please read: Lessing's "The Wind Blows Away our Words" for
    eye-witness accounts, and a description of how the media and the rest
    of the world "forgot" Afghanistan for many many years.

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