From: Ken Clements (Ken@Innovation-On-Demand.com)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 11:11:25 MDT
EvMick@aol.com wrote:
> I think there is a point being missed. Our enemy is not the Afghan people so
> much as the Taliban....the meme-set.
Right on! Them memes be ariding us again.
> or........
>
> offer Jerry Falwell (and any and all televangelists).......an expense paid
> trip <no security> to meet with the Taliban....(..this would Help our
> country a Lot..either way....whether Falwell goes or wusses...<if he
> goes...he's gone...if he doesn't....no credibility>.)
>
Thanks, this idea cheered me up when I really needed it.
>
> or.........
>
> Divert the "output" of a Walmart distribution center to
> Afghanistan....delivery via <many> cargo gliders...
>
Now you are going toward something that would actually work. Back during the
cold war I advocated not doing the Star Wars project, and instead, taking only
half the money and dropping it on the USSR in $100 bills. I reasoned that this
would start a instant black market in hard currency among the peasants that would
have destroyed the system. You have to realize that paper money is just that,
paper. What good is it without US to back it up? When they would go to spend
it, where would a great deal of the goods and services come from? Why, from US
and our workers.
The USSR was a special case, and I do not think this is a way to go now. Now I
think the way to go is to have individual families in the US adopt individual
families in the Muslim world and work on the human to human level. It is,
unfortunately, the standard practice of Americans to only get to know the other
people in the world by going to war against them. Let us hope that this time the
"getting to know" part outruns the "going to kill" part.
-Ken
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