http://www.bloggernews.net/122405 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:43:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/122405#comment-1413832 Nancy Reyes Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:11:29 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/122405#comment-1413832 Let me be cynical. This is a tribal society. Want to get friends? Bribe the tribal heads. Offer them a choice: carrot (bribes) or a stick (cooperate and your house will be destroyed by a missile...of course, for this to work, you need to keep out the press, who often naively reports "civilians" killed when in reality the civilians are Taliban/Alqada with their human hostages). Let me be cynical.
This is a tribal society.
Want to get friends? Bribe the tribal heads.
Offer them a choice: carrot (bribes) or a stick (cooperate and your house will be destroyed by a missile…of course, for this to work, you need to keep out the press, who often naively reports “civilians” killed when in reality the civilians are Taliban/Alqada with their human hostages).

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