Oren wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:10:21 GMT, aemeijers wrote:

Buying people off, via noble aid or outright
bribes, is almost always cheaper and easier than invading and killing them.

Should we have paid Pol Pot to call of his Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?

When does it stop, instead of killing them?

Ya got a point- it doesn't work too well with crazy people. Like the
current leaders in North Korea or Iran- the civilized world has dangled
all sorts of aid in front of them, but they ain't biting.

But that doesn't mean the PTB shouldn't try it, before loading troops on
a plane. Crooks, you can do business with. Stupid or crazy people, not
so much.

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