re: #395 Naso Tang

You seem to be suggesting they have no alternatives.

No, I don’t. I haven’t said a single goddamn thing that would at all equate to that. They have precious few other alternatives, and they do engage with them as well. Every viable economic end is being pursued there.

I think the operative word is greed, not desperation.

Heh. Yeah. That’s it. It’s greed. They’re not really desperate at all. Just a sham.

The cost of their weapons and boats and fuel alone could feed thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of their children.

And after that money ran out? After they’d sold that, and fed them? What then? That’s not a sustainable alternative.

The problems in Somalia are not entirely of the Somalians making. The corrupt warlords are useful to others, and profit from others, too.

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What I am saying is simply this: You cannot stop people who are under the threat of violent death every day by threatening them with violent death.

It doesn’t work.

If you want to address what I’m saying, address that.