Country Building 101

Howard T. Map-addict wrote:Why would people voluntarily go to serve a
ruler who has nuked his first population?

And then there are all the places that are
now too radioactive to be useful.

PHL

namelessfly wrote:Nuke the population then encourage immigration of skilled and educated people.

Opportunity and the understanding that stupidity or militancy will not be tolerated will attract immigrants.


This is why God gave us Neutron bombs.

The people are nuked, so no effective defence. Trillions of dollars of oil are up for grabs. I'd go and get the nod from the CI* and the Bu** family, recruit some hard assed mercenaries, sort out the effete current rulers, and install my own dynasty. Need to get in before a number of other private armies that have already made squillions from similar deals.
[quote="namelessfly"][quote="Howard T. Map-addict"]Why would people voluntarily go to serve a
ruler who has nuked his first population?

[quote="namelessfly"]Nuke the population then encourage immigration of skilled and educated people.[/quote
This is why God gave us Neutron bombs.[/quote

I was not advocating nuking the entire population, just the troublesome peasantry.
The elites, the security forces and the military would be spared.

Interesting how you spin your conspiracy theories focusing on the Bush family. The most recent mercenary operation to replace a ruler of an oil rich country so as to secure lucrative contracts was waged by the French, the British, Obama and Hillary Clinton against Daffy Gadaffy. It has been disaster for Libyan oil production.

Daryl wrote:The people are nuked, so no effective defence. Trillions of dollars of oil are up for grabs. I'd go and get the nod from the CI* and the Bu** family, recruit some hard assed mercenaries, sort out the effete current rulers, and install my own dynasty. Need to get in before a number of other private armies that have already made squillions from similar deals.

namelessfly wrote:Nuke the population then encourage immigration of skilled and educated people.[/quote
This is why God gave us Neutron bombs.[/quote

Hmm fly the Islamists have Pakistan and its nukes. Using tramp steamers deliver atomic weapons to sea port cities. Blam,San Diego, Los Angles, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Norfolk, Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans and, Huston could be gone with the Nuclear Wind. Not to mention using the river systems thus Portland, Chicago and, Detroit could join the target list. With nuclear weapon proliferation MAD still applies. Remember some of these people wear clothing by DuPont to kill enemies

Poker

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/ ... 6120131029


Worked out wonderfully?

pokermind wrote:Hmm fly the Islamists have Pakistan and its nukes. Using tramp steamers deliver atomic weapons to sea port cities. Bam, LA. Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Boston, New York, Norfolk, Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans and, Huston could be gone with the Nuclear Wind. With nuclear weapon proliferation MAD still applies.

Poker

I was not advocating that the US nuke the populations of oil rich countries. I was advocating that the rulers of the oil rich countries would nuke their own populations.

Now that Obama has surrendered to Iran's demands to have nuclear weapons, the Pakistanis are opening their nuclear weapons bizarre to Gulf States.

Those who pay attention now understand why Gov Palin choked on the Bush Doctrin question. She is very much a neoisolationist who advocates domestic energy development as an alternative to foreign intervention to secure oil.

I can't resist the temptation to dredge up the past:

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2067

Hmm, using Weapons Of Mass Destruction against your own population gets you put on top of the USA Regime change list and, using nukes means right the hell now

Poker

namelessfly wrote:

pokermind wrote:Hmm fly the Islamists have Pakistan and its nukes. Using tramp steamers deliver atomic weapons to sea port cities. Bam, LA. Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Boston, New York, Norfolk, Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans and, Huston could be gone with the Nuclear Wind. With nuclear weapon proliferation MAD still applies.

Poker

I was not advocating that the US nuke the populations of oil rich countries. I was advocating that the rulers of the oil rich countries would nuke their own populations.

Now that Obama has surrendered to Iran's demands to have nuclear weapons, the Pakistanis are opening their nuclear weapons bizarre to Gulf States.

Those who pay attention now understand why Gov Palin choked on the Bush Doctrin question. She is very much a neoisolationist who advocates domestic energy development as an alternative to foreign intervention to secure oil.

Of course this one is classic.

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1330

On a serious note, if you want to build a country, try expelling the foreign workers who now perform All of the menial jobs that your welfare dependant citizens eschew


http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6b49c0fa-5d9d ... z2moCW6Old

Then repeal the welfare state