Comments on: “Shop and Awe”

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:22:15 +0000

We use the same tactic to overcome and in time eradicate the Native Americans of North America. It’s called trade and once you get a population aducted to western good you have won the battle.
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Oh my God, you really think this don’t you?
Ah, I see, so by ‘trade’ you must mean ‘give– land-to-white-man, white-man-no-slaughter-entire-family’ type trade right? Genocide won the west, not trade.
But, anyway, this strategy won’t enrich politically-influential defense contractors or provide career opportunities for military officers, defense intellectuals, or national-security bureaucrat and, obviously, it won’t ever be seriously considered.

By: Byron Skinner

Byron Skinner — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:51:18 +0000

Good Morning Folks,
This is not exactly a new strategy from the Americans. We use the same tactic to overcome and in time eradicate the Native Americans of North America. It’s called trade and once you get a population aducted to western good you have won the battle.
The either become Americans or the die out. An example is the Tomahawk and knife, the Native Americans didn’t have the tech. to smelt iron or make steel, all those steel Tomahawk heads and knives that the Natives put wooden handles on and scalped settlers with came from the Europeans.
Trade goods are better then bullets any day and the really cool part is that the Natives have to buy the stuff. Thats called profit.
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:01:07 +0000

I think this is a great idea for many reasons but keep in mind that Mohamed Atta, the lead hijacker of 9/11, was by no means “poor.” He was educated at described as “middle class.”