Making a nation democratic (was: Why Do They Hate Us?)

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

>>>>> "t" == tomwhore  <Tom> writes:

    t> On 31 Oct 2001, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: --]Ah, just like
    t> 1974 Cambodia, right?


    t> Ok Mr Murphy, now lets here your solution. Quips down and pens
    t> up.


My solution is way too radical: Find their price point, buy them out.
Buy low, sell high.

For example, where/when was the dialog that said, "Ok, we remove the
US base in Saudi, guarantee Palestinian sovereignty, promise a fair
share in oil profits that we'd be happy with if the tables were
turned. Now, what do _you_ give _us_?" ... and not negotiate with ObL,
obviously, but with the people he obviously benefits.  Had we offered
to share global profits of the steel and shipping industry with the
Keiser, WWI might have been averted.  Had we offered to employ the
german people, Hitler would have had no grip.  Nope, we said "it's
_your_ problem" ... so they sorted it out their own way.

As with training any animal, you find what is important to them, work
from there.  "Evil when branded thinks of a weapon" but "business is
business" and if Al Queda are Mafioso, they understand business. 

The opposite, the propaganda that says "we is better than them", the
blind assumptions that they are whatever, all this can never replace
actual communications, and as with every armed insurrection in the
past, eventually you have to find a solution where everyone saves
face, or (like Japan) everyone loses it.  War, if it does anything,
cuts all lines of communications.

-- 
Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@teledyn.com> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com
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