Re: POLITICS: Re: grim prospects - US support of Israel vs. an Arabic coalition against Iraq/Iran and US dependence on Saudi Oil -

From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 05:30:25 MDT


On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Kai Becker wrote:

> Okay. Party A says: This my land, and my land alone, because my ancestors
> have lived here two thousand years ago. Party B says: This is my land, and
> my land alone, because my ancestors have lived here since two thousand
> years.
>
> Your rational solution is?

1) get the f*ck out of their line of fire (how did you wind up there in
   the first place? you crazy?)

2) offer good advice (to follow example 1), plus stop fighting, of
   course), from a distance, carefully avoiding becoming entangled
   in the mess. (The easiest, and short-term safest solution would be to
   just not let yourself be seen by any party, thus avoided to be
   associated with by any of them with one of their enemies, similiarly
   as you're avoiding raving looniacs on the street)

3) helping people to move away from there might help, but refugees will be
   contaminated with traces of fanatics, so most countries would reject
   them

Not a solution, but relatively rational.



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