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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior)
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 18:08:48 EDT
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> >>[Mike Huybensz]
> >>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?
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> >[Rick McGeer]
> >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.
> >
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>[Sarima (Stanley Friesen]
> 	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.
> -- 
Remember the funniest movie ever made, Duck Soup (Marx Bros.)?  When Fredonia
was disintegrating under Sylvanian attack, Harpo put on a help wanted sign
and went combing the coutryside for volunteers.  Harpo must have been an
early Libertarian.-)
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan