Dollars as weapons, a modest proposal for a strategy in Iraq, and the War on Terror in General.

NgAAAAAAH!

*falls over backwards in chair*

I adovacated the boots on ground searching vehicles, and creating checkpoints method of disrupting supply lines.

Dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!

If you think that the CIA has started illicit wars, what makes you think that the CIA isn't already building up a "clean" stockpile of weapons that don't have a US return address? It would seem to be a very logical thing to do.

But anyways, given that all the war material is either surplus or manufactured (and ammo manufacturing worldwide is already at nearly 100%), the manufactured should be easy enough to buy up, but who knows how much milsurp they have access to, or have buried in the ground, etc

I know that the US government has handed out money to various companies to buy nuclear reactors off of russia so that they don't fall into bad hands, so it's a stretch for me to think this isn't already done

We tried giving weapons to rebels and insugent cells with the intent on getting them back. Anyone wanna guess who gave Afganistan all their weapons when the Iron Curtain was looming? Let's not give the guns to anyone. Let's melt them down and use them for Quantum optic research. Those guys always need metal to make mirrors and what not.

And instead of trying to economically oust the terrorists, let's try to do a better job of cutting off the weapons that they are already recieveing.

Which is impossible. We have over 100,000 troops in Iraq and how many attacks a day happen? For another example in a country the size of the US we can't stop millions of illegals that we know are here from coming over the border, tons and tons of drugs, an Illegal weapons trade where guns flow from the south to the north of the country, prostitution, The list goes on and on. My point being is that what you are proposing, altho I do applaud your intent is simply not feasable. The time money and effort would be far better spent trying to reduce the pool of recruits that terrorists have access too.

As I said there will always be assholes out there who feel violence is a necessary thing and that they are right in their beliefs. Altho they can do some serious damage there is only so much they can do on their own, it's when they get access to an angry hungry populace that they are able to cause massive problems. Look at all the communist insurgents still operating in south America some of those countries have or had civil wars going on for decades all because someone came along and said hey her is a gun and some food now go kill in my name.

The hopeless situation of the peasant population wouldn't have anything to do with that at all, of course.

It's a mistake to blame insurgencies (especially among poor people with no way of bettering themselves) on outside factors. Peasants' revolts happened for centuries, throughout Europe.

Were actually in total agreement about that fact also.

Insurgent.