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Old 07-29-2011, 06:49 AM   #281
TheMercenary
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Originally Posted by gvidas View Post
It's definitely a salient point. I think the more finessed answer is, you use the military to create a system of justice. Because, ultimately, the problem with a military solution is that people can look at it and say: but that isn't just.

Michael Yon's two most recent actual dispatches (albeit hard to find amongst his book promoting and etc) were about just this:

Rule of Law

Left of Bang
Yon is where I heard about it first, from his FB page.
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