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Originally Posted by astralis
i personally believe that the only reason why we're not succeeding as we should is simply because we haven't bribed enough people enough.
opium fields? just bribe the dirt-poor opium farmers. insurgents? as col yu said, bribe 'em and they come over. mullahs? ah, i bet if you slipped 'em enough $$ they'd soon be singing the praises of the gov't.
i mean, the friggin' soviets did it, and they actually had their own little atheist communist party going in afghanistan. so much for the most dedicated muslims on earth.
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Where exactly did paying tribute money to the Afghan pirates for all those years get the Soviets
in the end?
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Originally Posted by astralis
ah, you are a classical realist that the likes of bismarck and morgenthau would have cheered on.
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Though i'm not sure i like being compared to Bismarck, yeah, that's me. For better or worse, i see past the shades of grey(or am unmoved by them) in almost all issues of the body politic. I'm what you'd call Amoral.