[extropy-chat] Death Toll/and not merely a great ethicist with lengthy hands-on Defense background

[Dirk Bruere]

Bret Kulakovich wrote:

>
> This isn't about WMD, and it is not about Oil. It is about social 
> infection. Break out a world map and look at the countries involved. 
> There is a belt tightening from both ends of the Middle East/Persia. 
> What motivates it? Consider - If you project forward 20 years, when 
> there is technological parody between the west and rulers who 
> currently take quiet offense to western civilization, what would 
> happen next? If these rulers are answering directly to God, then they 
> rule without question or consequence, and the people will follow. If 
> those people had freedom of choice and a better quality of life, would 
> they decide not to fight?
>
Any analysis that ignores the west's support for secular tyrannies in 
the ME is doomed to fail.
Who do you turn to when the biggest mouth ranting on about 'human rights 
and democracy' not only suports the local dictator but often as not 
helped kill the nascent democracy in order to put him there?

If I lived in the ME (outside of Israel) I sure as Hel wouldn't trust or 
support the West, let alone the US.
Ten times bitten, twice shy to mangle an old saying.
It's called 'blowback' if you are on the receiving end, or 'payback' if 
you're AQ handing it out.

-- 
Dirk

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