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To: TobagoJack who wrote (136533)	11/4/2017 11:51:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	4 Recommendations Recommended By 3bar charlyfi gg cox SirWalterRalegh Respond to of 217948

Oooops wrong click = lost post.. in summary note no USA military base in NZ so we're very lucky that we haven't been taken over. Or maybe nobody noticed we're ready for conquest. The USA has always been militarily profligate and wastrel. Losing wars or winning in a way that doesn't look much like victory. (Since the 1950s Korean war). Yes they got Saddam and sons but that meant ISIS took over and did hugely more horrors than Saddam (Iran war not counted). They got Gadaffi too which also suited me but of doubtful value. Vietnam was a big loss. Korea was a big win and great for Qualcomm decades later. Regarding North Korea it seems a cheap victory over Kim the Fatter aka Rocketman could be had by bribery and corruption = if the army takes over and dismantles atomic bombs the top 100 "colonels" each get $2 million and a USA passport and the next 1000 "sergeants" each get $200,000 and 10,000 "privates" each get $20,000. That's a bargain price and would be tempting. During my gang warfare childhood I found that getting others to choose my better gang was a much better solution than stone fights, strangling and war. It must be my English ancestry which didn't defeat Maoris so much as offer a better gang than living in ponga huts and whacking each in the head with stone clubs then eating the losers. Recalcitrant tribes found themselves up against the English AND hungry Maori enemies. Mqurice