Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2011.03.20 06:38:00 -
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Edited by: Destination SkillQueue on 20/03/2011 06:42:10
 Originally by: Antihrist Pripravnik
Originally by: Alpheias
Lets keep the political aspect (how that is now possible... ) out of it.
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Btw, I'm a pacifist. Any war is bad. If you really want to destroy a leader, tyrant or whatever, send a hitman and minimize the damage. Let the people live. If the people support the leader, that why the hell attack him in the first place?
That doen't actually work too well for a few reasons. Primarily because a regime isn't actually reliant on any one person. You need thousands of people to work with the regime to keep it going and they directly benefit from the regime's actions. The next in line for power might be less crazy and dangerous or more crazy and more capable, but either way he got to his position because he supports the regime, benefits from it and to a large degree is fine with continuing things as they were. If you want to change the situation, you have to bring down the entire regime.
It's also a bad idea because you leave them with their military capability intact after murdering their leader, which is an act of war and isn't something the people will forgive or forget. When you start killing of their leaders, you will end up fighting a larger war in any case, so you either go in fully committed or you shoudn't interfere at all. Half assed measures will only prolong the fighting and suffering.
As for the people supporting their leader, it never is a case of full support or no support. Some people will always support the leader no matter who it is or what he does. Take the worst tyrants in the world, that masacred their own people by the millions and you will find millions of others who supported him and wish he was still back, so the good old days would return. The reason why we interfere is because we can without too much trouble, we have interests in those areas and because we have stood by watching doing nothing for too many times and it tends to always end up with massacres and genocides. The number of innocents getting killed in the intervention tends to be miniscule in comparison.
PS. You're not a pacifist. You're more of an realist who dislikes the use of violence.
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