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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bilow who wrote (30561)5/24/2002 9:38:00 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
we wouldn't be able to walk over them with minimal casualties

I wonder if it is possible for them to have better trained armies without transforming their society in a way that they don't want?

They want something like a theocracy.

Modern armies need engineers with college educations, and a technologically advanced economy.

Technologically advanced economies need capital. How do they accumulate and deploy capital into building factories without capitalists? Who will innovate but entrepreneurs?

The Soviets could do it, but they, at least, took over a country that already had colleges and factories.

I think, more than anything, what led to the fall of the Soviet empire was that they had reached the limit of how much one can advance technologically without capitalists and entrepreneurs.

The Chinese hit that limit, too.

They can't compete militarily without transforming their society away from what they are striving to preserve.

Which doesn't mean we'll like what they have become if they do. Using surgeons with anesthesia to cut off a thief's hand is insanity.

I have a theory that people in the Middle East are simply insane, and the rest of the world got as far away as it could. Draw concentric circles around the Middle East and the further away you get, the more sane the population is.

Maybe when the Diaspora happened, God was doing the Jews a favor?
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