Posted on 10/26/2006 7:18:40 PM PDT by kristinn
Obviously as dumb...............
Love ya, Doc.
Tivo'd the show last night and even the family was boo'ing the chick/sluts.
So removed from the heartland. The chicks are a major disappointment. Be interesting to see some ex chicks come out and see where they're at.
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Newt is the man.
Jim, give them something irresistible ...
Leasing Nuclear power plants as foreign policy.
A consortium of American Nuke power plant builders backed by the US government with bonds, tax breaks, etc., builds one or more plants in Iran on property owned by the US by treaty/contract as sovereign US land, defended from space - use your imagination, and FR’s archives, on that.
(They refuse, you take out their leadership by whatever ways/means that allows us to take their nuke facilities and build on them - whatever is anything our military and spook corps is capable of.)
How do you win all this?
You tell them exactly what you are going to do, publicly, in whatever/all forms - but PUBLIC. Then Do It. One step at a time. President announces it in a policy speech - Tony could knock it out of the park.
Have State begin opening negotiations with GE, et al., in public.
Creates a level of instability in the Iranian power structure that can be judged and compared to the next step ...
Start selling the Government Bonds to back this all financially. Make some popcorn and watch the Gulf States cash roll in.
Add CVN’s as needed.
You can fill in the blanks, but this will leapfrog the WOT and kill off the generational supply of terrorist cannon fodder.
This will work elsewhere, BTW ... and have the ‘unintended consequences’ of developing a clean, low cost power grid for any 3d world country willing to embrace Capitalism and all of IT’s unintended consequences ... in literally the time it would take GE, Bechtel, et al, to build them.
Gives our economy another leg up, and removes the underlying desperation and poverty that is necessary for Terrorism to live another generation.
Think about it.
Then take Newt’s point of view as a future historian - 25 years out. Don’t forget tech advances in every field.
Think again.
Then give it to Newt and Fred, or Fred and Newt, or ... whatever.
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