And you trust the native governments?

Post #137,737 by ben_tilly 1/25/04 11:02:44 PM Reply	And you trust the native governments? Remember, the local government often means the thugs that most effectively repressed everyone else. Funnel foreign aid in and they'll cheerfully redirect large fractions to private Swiss bank accounts. In fact they will get quite offended if you try to object to them doing it. (They will also claim not to be while proceeding to do it anyways.) Furthermore many of these governments don't much like us, or if they do like us, don't see their goals as being aligned with ours. Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #137,743 by orion 1/25/04 11:16:36 PM Reply	You have a point there in that how can we trust some governments? Some may be just like Iraq was, with a dictator running it pretending to be a Democracy. We would have to involve the United Nations to create an International Task Force that can find the terrorists and bring them to justice. Maybe people who are familiar with the language, customs, and government of that country that can work within it to find them without doing collateral damage like US Troops would? Some sort of International Delta Force. ;) In the case of Thailand, I am sure that they want to get rid of the terrorists in their country too. The Thai Buddhist Monks are highly respected there, and I am sure they will want to bring those guilty to justice. They may need more information on how the terrorists operate, etc. Can't do that without sharing information with other countries and monitoring suspicious individuals. *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*
Post #137,761 by Ashton 1/26/04 4:41:59 AM Reply	Given such a milieu One would think thrice before embarking upon a project fraught with so many unknowns. Wouldn't one? (Let us hope that the 0.3% Linux-users, per Google (and Andrew's correction of their exaggeration to 1%) - does not also represent the %Muricans who might share such a POV.) Ashton Gawd it's lonely at the bottom of the oil/$ chain; there's plenty of company, but - all ya can do is watch that tar baby with all those hands firmly affixed.

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