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Skriven 2008-05-27 01:36:59 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
  Kommentar till text 16175 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Casus belli
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Hello Robert,

On Monday May 26 2008 17:16, you wrote to me:

 MV>> So why did we not simply leave their oil where it was until they
 MV>> got ready for it by themselves?

 RB> Why should we, if we wanted it and were willing to pay?

To avoid the mess that we are in now of course.

 RB> Since when is it reprehensible to buy something, particularly when the
 RB> sellers have no use for it?

Ever since the sellers are not as educated as the buyers and the buyers take
advantage of the fact that the sellers are not aware of the value of what they
are selling. That will always backfire in the long run.

 MV>> I do not approve of their methods, but I think they have some good
 MV>> reasons to be pissed off at us.

 RB> I think they _had_ some good reasons, say in 1900-1918 or so, in the
 RB> colonial period. Nowadays they just bitch because their own rulers
 RB> want to keep the wealth for themselves.

I think many of those reasons still hold.

 MV>> Like it or not, we have to talk to Hezbollah, we have to talk to
 MV>> Hamas end maybe even to Bin Laden. There is no other way to solve
 MV>> the problems.

 RB> I disagree, since the problems are not of our making.

Oh, but they _are_ in part of our making. Do you really feel it was ok to just
take the land of the Palestines to found the state of Israel?

Anyway, what we are doing now is not working.


Cheers, Michiel

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