Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > At 10:58 PM Wednesday 7/30/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > >> yet, many countries still allow forced child labor and other forms >> of economic slavery, so americans can shop at walmart. you can't >> tell me there is nothing wrong with an economic system that >> justifies this sort of neo-colonialism in the name of offering as >> little money as the market will bear for human labor or raw >> materials, because people can either take it or starve? what kind >> of choice is that? >> jon >> > > > > One obvious-seeming answer is to start by getting rid of the > dishonest politicians, but then some people would complain about > "invasions" and "nation-building" again . . . > I'm not morally opposed to that, but invading all of them is well beyond our resources, as Iraq has clearly shown. So then the question comes up how you would decide to invade and over-throw those dishonest politicians. I think Colin Powell's "Pottery Barn rule" applies: If you break it, you own it. So, how many coutnries do you think we should break and own, Ronn?
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