Tuesday, January 22, 2013
We never negotiate
I've always been annoyed by the nonsense that governments emit when faced with pirates or terrorists.
"We strongly condemn in the strongest terms this cowardly act. We will never negotiate with cowardly terrorists."
Well, in reality we do pay terrorists often, though not every time. It's well known that the first few months of the Afghanistan war succeeded because we simply paid the Taliban to leave for a while. We didn't defeat them militarily or diplomatically or anything else.
The terrorists KNOW they're going to get paid. They know it because they've BEEN paid. They know it because they HAVE THE FUCKING MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS. We're not fooling them with our fine brave-sounding words.
So what's the fucking point of emitting the "Never negotiate" signal? Solely to fool Americans? But we know the truth now, so we aren't fooled either.
Finally figured it out. It's not incorrect, it's incomplete. The complete statement is:
We never negotiate with terrorists because we don't know how to haggle. We always pay sticker price up front.
Now it makes sense.
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