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Smith_3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:21 AM Original message |
I don't really get it. On one hand people are outraged about Blackwater being in Iraq... |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:25 AM Response to Original message |
1. Should the shop owners call the police to come to international waters to help them? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:26 AM Response to Original message |
2. "Either you ________ or you ___________" = Oversimplified = False dichotomy. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
3. without taking a position on mercenaries on merchant ships |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
4. This is all potentially lucrative - $$$ - for our Mercenary Corporations ... don't cha think? |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
5. Security guards for private property are different then mercenaries. |
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Smith_3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:35 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. But these are trade routes. The isn't guarding individual ships, it is guarding "the road". |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:41 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. A trade route is not built by, maintained by, or the responsibility of a government to protect. |
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Old Vet (618 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:32 AM Response to Original message |
6. Boat piracy |
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Old School Liberal (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:35 AM Response to Original message |
8. The circumstances make the difference |
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Old School Liberal (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-09-09 07:36 AM Response to Original message |
9. Delete--Repeat |
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