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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior)
Message-ID: <715@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 19:08:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 19:08:13 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 12:11:04 EDT
References: <535@brl-tgr.ARPA> <987@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <10286@ucbvax.ARPA> mcgeer@ucbvax.UUCP (Rick McGeer) writes:
>In article <727@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes:
>>> 
>>> Why do you assume it wouldn't?  Military struggles are generally decided
>>> on the relative size and economic productivity of the countries involved,
>>> not on the ideologies thereof. 
>>
>>Like Vietnam?  In any event, you are comparing struggles between political
>>systems, rather than a struggle between a political and an apolitical system.
>>I repeat: how would the market provide defense against a competing political
>>power?
>
>In VietNam we gave up because we didn't have the will to continue the struggle.
>The peoples of the Mekong are still suffering for our refusal to do so.
>
	You still have not answered the original question, how would a
free market be *able* to respond to an organized military attack by a
statist neighbor? Think about it, a large, rich area with *no* central
government, *no* organized, systematic defense facilities, just a
series of seperate militias and privately owned armies(sort of like
Lebanon). Now here comes a large army pouring over the borders from
next door. Just what market forces are going to recruit, train, equip,
and organize an effective resistance force before the country is
essentiallty completely overrun? Under these cicumstances it is
*preparedness*, not size and wealth that determine victory. This is
the question that Mike is trying to get you to answer.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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