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To: tejek who wrote (350257)	9/11/2007 4:24:01 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576891

Ted, many Koreans are in your camp. Appease the Taliban, and they'll leave you alone. Worked for Spain, didn't it? Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (350257)	9/11/2007 4:51:05 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576891

'The peace racket' " 'If you want peace, prepare for war,' counseled the Roman general Flavius Vegetius Renatus more than 1,600 years ago, echoing the sage advice given nine centuries earlier by the Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu. ... "Conflict happens, power matters, and it's better to be strong than to be weak. Human history has demonstrated repeatedly that you're safer if your enemies know you'll stand up for yourself than if you're proudly outspoken about your defenselessness or your unwillingness to fight. ... "Decent people prefer peace to war, life to death, nonviolence to violence. But they also prefer freedom to tyranny — and the peace studies movement, all too often, promotes a mentality that plays directly into the hands of despots. ... "If so many young Americans have grown up insulated from the realities that Vegetius and Sun Tzu elucidated centuries ago, and are therefore easy marks for the peace racket, it's thanks to the success of the very things the peace racket despises — American capitalism and American military preparedness." — Bruce Bawer, writing on "The peace racket," Sept. 2 in the Los Angeles Times