From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Dec 15 2002 - 09:39:14 MST
Amara Graps wrote:
> After an Iraqi vice president challenged President Bush
> to settle his differences with Saddam Hussein in
> personal combat, more than a few pundits snickered
> that a duel might be preferable to military mobilization.
> Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., the head of the Ludwig von
> Mises Institute, suggested, "Choose your weapons,
> fellas, and leave the rest of us out of it." " Amara
>
At one point in history, some conflicts were done
this way. The biblical story of David and Goliath
was an example. Opposing armies would line up,
shout insults at each other, then each side would
send up its biggest and baddest dude, who would go
at it mano a mano. The demoralized losing side
would generally run off with little actual bloodshed.
Ah, the good old days.
I propose we do likewise today, except with mechanized
battlebots.
spike
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