At 04:45 PM Thursday 7/31/2008, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: >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?
Apparently the <sarcasm> tags were needed after all. . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
