From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 22:34:11 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Why is it that US troops aren't stopping the looting? It seems like a
> very poor sign of things to come, but perhaps there is a good
> explanation I am not familiar with.
They're not stopping the looting because they don't want the tentative
victory they have to turn into a mess with every other civilian against
them. A few palaces and government buildings being looted is, I'm
sure, seen as a trivial price for keeping the populace rejoicing, rather
than shooting.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> 'Institute regime change everywhere... to "None of the above."' -- Alex Future Bokov
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