Of course! It's so simple! Why didn't we think of it before? If there was no poverty, everything would be fine. Certainly religious or cultural ideologies wouldn't get in the way of world harmony.
Quick! Someone throw money at the poor people! Peace at last!!!
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To: libertarianPA
Interesting - Haiti has never been in a war yet is the poorest country in the western hemisphere...
2 posted on
10/13/2006 12:31:51 PM PDT by
2banana
To: libertarianPA
Why were the worst wars started by the richest nations?
3 posted on
10/13/2006 12:32:00 PM PDT by
Mike Darancette
(Those that do not heed the warnings of history....)
To: libertarianPA
And somebody send bin Laden a few more million...that'll help for sure...
To: libertarianPA
Unless of course their religion demands that they kill everyone....
To: libertarianPA
Yes of course the Saudis that were involved in 9/11 were all dirt poor farmers that couldn't even afford a goat...
7 posted on
10/13/2006 12:36:22 PM PDT by
ikka
To: libertarianPA
Wait! I thought for sure Cindy Sheehan was going to win this most coveted prize!
8 posted on
10/13/2006 12:36:47 PM PDT by
marvlus
To: libertarianPA
Normally people aren't in the mood to fight when they are out scrounging for something to eat. Hungry people just don't fight well.
9 posted on
10/13/2006 12:37:32 PM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
("Today we march, tomorrow we vote!" The illegal aliens won't be "staying home" on Nov. 7th.)
To: libertarianPA
Actually it links Capitalism with a reduction in poverty.
10 posted on
10/13/2006 12:38:07 PM PDT by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: libertarianPA
Hard to believe anyone really believes this:
"... the causes of war, such as hunger and poverty..." Anyway -- if it is poverty you want to eliminate then Capitalism is the tried and true way to eliminate it. Every other approach has only made poverty worse.
11 posted on
10/13/2006 12:38:23 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: libertarianPA
Gee, I guess that explains why most of the 911 Hijackers came from rich Saudi families.
13 posted on
10/13/2006 12:41:35 PM PDT by
dfwgator
To: libertarianPA
The 'poverty causes war' analysis is bullshit, but it's nice they decided to honor one of the people who is implementing small-scale capitalism as the way to overcome poverty.
16 posted on
10/13/2006 12:45:59 PM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: libertarianPA
Wow, it only took them this long to recognize this guy. I believe it was he that P.J. O'Rourke was praising as a poverty solution in a book from the 90s (IIRC, All the Trouble in the World ), as opposed to the failed government schemes, like "Let's depend on and market jute even though the market has shrunk dramatically due to synthetics."
To: libertarianPA
Attack the causes of poverty and you remove the roots of conflict Historically, it is when improvements of conditions occur that many poor peoples become aggressive. As an example, the French Revolution occurred on the heels of the most widespread increase in wealth among the commonfolk in centuries.
19 posted on
10/13/2006 12:50:26 PM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: libertarianPA
These clowns have it exactly backwards. They confuse cause and effect, and continue to demonstrate the utter idiotic worthlessness of the Nobel Peace Prize.
23 posted on
10/13/2006 12:54:15 PM PDT by
Maceman
(This is America. Why must we press "1" for English?)
To: libertarianPA
I think the AFP and the Nobel committee missed the point. They are using capitalism to help people help themselves. The micro loans are not free, the bank is making a profit, the borrowers are making a profit.
26 posted on
10/13/2006 12:59:37 PM PDT by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: libertarianPA
Actually, there is a body of learned opinion holding that most of the cultural, social, and economical development occurs in the lands either being ravaged by war [but not too much, of course], or at least under the war conditions.[see Charles Murray book "Human accomplishment"]. The examples most frequently cited are Renaissance Italy and Holland Gold Age. Of course, there are other contributory factors of the civilizational nature as well.
28 posted on
10/13/2006 1:01:44 PM PDT by
GSlob
To: libertarianPA
Ahhh! So
that's why those middle-class Arabs flew airplanes full of innocent people into the World Trade Center! They were too poor!
Umm.... Oops.
29 posted on
10/13/2006 1:02:05 PM PDT by
TChris
(The United Nations is suffering from delusions of relevance.)
To: libertarianPA
Poverty is not the cause of war but frequently war is the cause of poverty.
30 posted on
10/13/2006 1:05:03 PM PDT by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
To: libertarianPA
A glance at recent Peace Prize winners reveals a shift in emphasis in the thinking of the secretive five-member committee away from the classic role of peacemaker, as it has honoured people working in the fields of human rights and the environment. So what is new? They gave one to Albert Schweitzer back in '52 for being a jungle doctor.
31 posted on
10/13/2006 1:07:22 PM PDT by
LexBaird
(98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
To: libertarianPA
History is demarcated by war, nobody ever asked:
"What did you do in the Peace, Daddy?"
32 posted on
10/13/2006 1:07:54 PM PDT by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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