GovGaryJohnson comments on Ask Gov. Gary Johnson

Thanks, dad. :')

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You're a fucking loser

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You are so stupid that you don't understand context. If there were a small group of people that cared about a certain issue that suddenly, quite suddenly exploded into popularity under shady circ...

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and the evidence points towards right....

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coke vs pepsi is a significant argument. And so is Republican vs Democrat. I'm sorry you can't tell the difference. Kony isn't new, therefore, he didn't come out of nowhere.

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I know that Kony isn't new you mouth-breather, that only corroborates the fact that this popped up put of nowhere. Keep getting suckered, it's too late now. It's about as useful as arguing coke v...

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Less than can go wrong with putting governments in charge of them, that's for sure.

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Yes but they can't proove it because there's no signed paper. Ha! America saves the day again!

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Except we don't just hand those to rebel movements. Tanks and jets are expensive to build, expensive to maintain, and require very advanced training to operate. A few missing containers of surplu...

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Initially.

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Right? Kinda like just about anything in life.

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> Sooo, because they have no rights under the geneva convention, they > don't follow the geneva convention? Wow so surprising. Because giving mercenary groups the same rights ...

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> Whew that's okay I guess, knee jerk reactions and dodging hardball > questions is what I want from a president! That's what I was commenting on.

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Only because the letters of marque were cited first. As you say, there are highly trained groups within the US that could do it better. Then again we'd have to "get our hands dirty".

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> letters of marque (...) may be a better means of dealing with Kony. You realize that the last letter of marque issued by the US was in 1815, right? There are good reasons that mea...

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US tanks and jets and money also make us culpable.

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Obama went after Kony?

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Sooo, because they have no rights under the geneva convention, they don't follow the geneva convention? Wow so surprising. Slaughtering every man woman and child kind of sounds like what we do ...

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Sooooo Obama?

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Good for you then because that's what we've got for a president.

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Ehh 'minimal' is kinda a subject terms considering the multinational force did not have access to said resources. Along with the fact that private contractors operate under different rules in the...

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Its not really even the ignorance, everybody can't possibly know everything, but its the way nobody just admits they aren't an expert and let's someone who is make the decisions

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Better yet, lets let the countries that corruption has crippled their ability to feed their children solve their own damn self created problems. If a corporation has a private profit based intere...

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Perhaps, but it was the private sector utilizing minimal resources to achieve an outcome that a multinational force 10 times larger could not achieve.

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Yeah but.... those weren't privately trained men. Those were select spec operators who's time in the Government military had ended. Most military contractors are ex-government mil guys who simp...

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They're pretty much a requirement of the job.

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So why should someone who "botched" his reaction to such an extent as to advocate military action be trusted to make the difficult every day decisions of president? I'm not American but if I we...

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> Initially, I frankly botched my initial reaction

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Except mercenary groups are far less bound by the Geneva Convention since the Geneva Convention is pretty explicit in spelling out that Mercenaries are shitheads that the laws of war don't apply ...

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Ah yes, a tale from the now disbanded mercenary group executive outcomes...

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Nothing wrong with pirates. Johnson/Blackbeard 2016.

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An African state.

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Good idea, the military organizations with a government's oversight commit atrocities, so lets have some with no profit or interest outside of profit handle these highly sensitive situations. Tha...

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It's way worse.

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And that send more forces to a place will not necessarily solve the problem.

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I like that this statement is already on wikipedia

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He didn't "react" he merely gave his opinion, as all presidents do. There is still a congress.

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There is a documentary called "The World Without US" (as in the U.S.) which shows that not going in and solving foreign problems would actually end up costing the U.S. more later because the prob...

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Looking through your other responses here, I'm genuinely a bit confused. Why are you proposing mercenaries for this? A dedicated US special operations force could certainly be better equipped tha...

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Please leave Reddit, we have no place for two faced scum like you

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Hate to break it to you, but private organizations have been in charge of military operations for a long time.

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Did you miss how many Somali pirates have already died attempting to take ships? Death isn't much of a deterrent when your family starving is the alternative, and letters of marque just transfer ...

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I don't understand how anyone ever seriously suggests this without an ulterior motive. Has no one heard the expression "crossed the Rubicon"? My phone just fucking auto suggested Rubicon after I ...

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Agreed. He's still a fucking moron for how he reacted.

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Hey, I LOVE eating my own cum <3

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Toasted.

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Maybe let somebody else do it for a change. I don't know about you but I think we've played World Police enough. There are an awful lot of examples of our help backfiring, and in some cases mak...

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You're retarded. This is exactly why the libertarian movement won't get anywhere. It's full of little kids and conspiracy theorists who don't know anything about the world. They think Kony is new...

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Gary Johnson was governor during my (relatively brief) tenure in New Mexico. New Mexico suffers from a number of problems, including a lot of poverty. He had a pretty unusual standard for decidin...

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God damn, I hate to be that guy, but THIS, so much fucking this. I hate how fucking ignorant our elected officials are.

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I am offended. Not at you, and I'm sorry if I gave that impression. But I am terribly irked by Governor Johnson and many, many others like him who, while running for high government office, take ...

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> because at least they aren't going to create international > catastrophes due to never learning the flaws in their schoolboy > fantasy understandings of diplomacy and p...

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Missions within established warzones would be my first guess. Secret missions outside of established warzones would be my second :P I'm just going to point at Mossad and say that we haven't don...

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The piece of paper that makes the US government culpable.

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But in the article on the Sierra Leone civil war , it says they had 3,000 troops and 500 advisers, plus air support.

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So basically do nothing? You seem offended. You're more educated on this than I am. I'm not looking to argue, I just wanted other opinions, that's all. Thanks for answering.

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What do you think SOCOM does?

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Neither Joseph Kony nor the remnants his Lord's Resistance Army presents a significant immediate concern any longer. The LRA has been largely routed and fractured, and Kony himself has been drive...

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Whew that's okay I guess, knee jerk reactions and dodging hardball questions is what I want from a president!

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/life

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This response has already been mentioned under "Letters of Marque" on Wikipedia.com

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In that respect, it's just like the armed forces of a state.

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That would be pretty fun to see with all the events going on in his neck of the woods, but with my luck I'd probably introduce him to Reddit when guys admitting to eating their own cum gets popul...

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Implying we should have done anything at all. That entire Kony 2012 thing was a PsyOP, probably manufactured by the CIA. The video comes out of nowhere with millions of views, comments disabled, ...

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The history of EO has always fascinated me. These guys kicked ass.

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RUF IS FIGHTING FOR THE PEOPLEEEEEE!

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I'm aware we do it and I'm not thrilled about that either

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AMA? Wink wink nudge nudge. Would be real cool to get his input on current conflicts and the role of PMCs in the modern world. I did however, manage to find his blog at http://eebenbarlowsmilitar...

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I can see the letters of marque being abused, but it's somewhat different than conscripting mercenaries. Which we already do - they're called Private Military Contractors. L3, BlackWater, etc...

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I see where you're coming from about a letter of marque, but it may persuade someone to help capture Kony without our direct military intervention. What would be your alternative suggestion for s...

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Yeah drone strikes are probably way quicker and more efficient.

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Well you can tell Mossad they should have sent in the whole army.

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Eeban Barlow is my dad's cousin. Always cool to see him get recognition and not accused of war crimes.

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Yes, because given the choice between absolutely starving to death or possibly killed by mercs, desperate and impoverished somalis will give up their lives of piracy and go back to their day jobs...

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Why would I waste my time arguing with a mental midget?

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Reddit is a cesspool of self-assured morons.

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Shhh. Rest, child, and let the free market watch over you.

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I'm saying him owning up to his botched original assessment is awesome. I didn't say shit about his current view. That's not the point of my comment.

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"Okay, my first idea was terrible, but here's one basically just as bad to make up for it." Awesome.

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If movies are to be believed, sure. But in this age of drone strikes and big brother, no.

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...yes

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That is just completely ignorant of how the world works. Who would claim that bounty? It's not like we're awarding an X-prize to some billionaire who made a space plane with neatly defined object...

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The self-determination of Joseph Kony.

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I think it'd be the cheapest deterrent. After a few of their leaders are killed the Somali pirates and others targeting Western ships will decide to pursue other endeavors.

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Aye. Better to say you fucked up and now see things differently than some other general nonsense.

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I'd prefer not to have mercs be an even larger part of our military

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I feel like he's talking about normalizing it to a much larger degree

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That's really what it boils down to, eh? I don't personally have a problem with it. It's essentially what the Israelis did with war criminals from WWII. I would prefer for the primary objective t...

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I think he was going for levity there.

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Come on,guy! You're giving people too much credit! If a drone killer/Nobel "Peace" Prize winner can have a kill list, sorry a "disposition ,matrix", you think they'd care about hiring some mercs?...

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So anything could happen, right or wrong. Got it.

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So, again, nothing, just name calling?

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You don't believe we're doing it now?

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I've never seen a hard ball question answered so perfectly. Thank so much for being real

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Are you really this stupid?

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So brave.

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Well to be fair, the CIA was hiding him in Pakistan the whole time.

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Is that a thing we want to be doing?

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What's the difference between letters of marque and the US aiding rebels

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I am not condemning violence. I am condoning non-interventionism and self-determination.

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"I can't back up my opinions so I'll resort to name calling." How in god's name could that end well? Mercenaries are out for one goal: money. You KNOW people will do ANYTHING for money, especia...

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You really think a US force would be better equipped to find and kill a single man than a highly motivated small group of mercenaries?

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Kony is not an innocent; NAP does not apply in any way, shape, or form. NAP is not a denunciation of all violence, it is a denunciation of unprovoked violence. Disturbance of the peace (read: tra...

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I'm unsure of how you'd consider them mercenaries. Do they fulfill a contract? Because that's the definition of a mercenary. Edit: Actually, I should clarify on this statement. That's not what ...

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There's also the moral/ethical quandaries of putting bounties on people's heads - it would basically condemn someone to death without trial. It's no better than bombing him with a cruise missile ...

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It does not have to be the US funding said mercenaries, but yes, mercenaries have been involved. Elements within Qatar, KSA and Turkey have funded and armed militant groups, which some would call...

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I respect an honest man more than one who just covers things up with bullshit.

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Your point, in reply to Mr. Johnson's comment suggesting we send mercenaries to hunt Kony, was "that worked so well in Syria". This directly asserts your belief that mercenaries were involved in ...

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He doesn't have an answer. He is a libertarian. He knows sending troops is the worst answer to such war-crimes from a libertarian perspective--despite being the only thing that can stop such ki...

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They don't have to be mercenaries to illustrate my point. But in actuality, funding mercenaries would be even worse.

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R4f1 may have had incorrect reasoning however doing nothing is certainly an option and the one most libertarians would agree with.

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If you aggress against Kony, in that interpretation it would be seen as a violation, since Kony has not aggressed against the US. Now Kony may have aggressed against Uganda, but we are not Uganda...

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Government contracts. Who do you think is paying them?

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No, the US basically granted them immunity from punishment. In the proper use of a private military organization, THE ONLY THING keeping them responsible is by having them face their crimes. Blac...

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You privatize it because they can do it better and cheaper. Competition breeds innovation, and no one competes with the government. They get their budget, and then they overspend, and they just g...

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It feels like he thinks we should go back to Ye Olde Government, where everyone wore buckles and said "thee and thou".

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'Fraid not. The NAP doesn't mean pacifism. If a stranger is being assaulted, shooting the assailant doesn't violate the NAP.

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How often do you hear a politician own up to something like that? Awesome.

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This is allowable under the constitution, but can you explain your thoughts on use of these letters in the face of international law? I'm aware that the United States isn't a formal signatory t...

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I ask because I'm very familiar with the Syrian civil war, and mercenaries have never been involved -- so I'm wondering where he got his ideas.

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The real question is what could go right. The company Executive Outcomes did more good in Sierra Leone with 200 people than the UN did with well over 10,000. > In March 1995, the company ...

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It's a far shot from mercenaries in any regard. Multiple parties fund multiple aspects of the Syrian conflict -- rebels, terrorist groups, the Assad government -- but that does not mean that ever...

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Nothing, i.e., non-interventionism is exactly what is expected of a libertarian president. Especially since Kony has not declared war on America, we have no right to declare war on him. It violat...

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Well, no. The FSA wasn't put in charge of a military operation by the United States, and in fact the United States supporting the FSA with financial aid and armaments is unrelated in any regard t...

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What do you think Blackwater/Academi is? They're a military for hire. Granted, they also make money by doing training, but you better believe if suddenly private armies were 100% legal and accept...

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/r/facepalm

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Nobody pulled their funding...

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I think s/he's referring to US funding for rebel armies in Syria, which is not the same as mercenaries, but pretty much as close to a proxy war as it gets.

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Governor Johnson, I am all but committed to voting Libertarian in the forthcoming elections, since I think stopping the erosion of American constitutional liberties is an issue which takes priori...

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The FSA whom the West openly backs. Its not a secret.

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I was going to respond to this, but it's such a stupid fucking comment that I'm just going to call you a moronic twat and be done with it.

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He watched that KONY 2012 video that went viral and got too hyped up about it like everyone else.

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At least he answered the question.

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Because we all know how great it is to have a bunch of mercenaries racing to win a multi-million dollar prize in some third world hellhole.

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A bounty is the cheapest thing short of doing nothing.

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Wait, which private organizations did the United States send in to fight Assad?

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Thank you for your honesty, Governor.

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The bounty on Bin Laden was a measly $25 million dollars; it should have been ten or a hundred times that! For $2 billion, we could have had the Taliban's entire power structure completely wiped ...

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If they'd all calm down and meditate, they'd see the error of their ways. They'd embrace peace and stop trying to add to the misery of the world.

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Kony "claims" to fight a religious insurgency. Which means he will continue to have followers. Go after him, and then what? Killing Bin Laden didn't even put a dent in Al-Qaeda. Not to mention, y...

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Well, what's your solution?

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I don't know if you know this, but if you stop paying a company, they're not going to stick around to kill people. They're going to go home. Because fighting a war is expensive.

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Let me respond to this in the nicest way possible: If that company isn't getting paid then WHAT IN THE EVER LIVING FUCK ARE THEY DOING CONDUCTING MILITARY OPERATIONS? Stuff like that is expensive...

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Kinda like the current military, then?

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Well we didn't really "pull the funding" did we? They kept getting paid, just under a different name.

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Yes, send him a very stern letter. That oughta teach him! *I don't know what a marque is.

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Took over 10 years to get Bin Laden, and the bounty isn't even what did it. As a libertarian, I would really not be please with the President using our tax-dollars to put bounties on people like ...

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Didn't work so well with Blackwater. All they did was change their name and poof! Problems diminished.

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Hey, it worked in Syria against Assad, and against the Soviets in Afghanistan.... oh wait... And to Mr Johnson, if you're elected President of American, why are you so worried about what's goin...

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Or kill people to make sure no one finds out about it.

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Exactly. Put a fifty million dollar bounty on his head, stipulate that you want that fucking thing delivered to you on a gold platter, and you'd have it within a month.

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Free market solves everything!

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Not as much as you'd expect. If they get out of hand you pull the funding and generally speaking a company that wants to make money will stop doing the shit they're doing that is bad.

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Uh, by meditation do you mean mediation? Or is meditation more powerful than I have been led to believe? Either way, when you send in a squad to take out a leader a lot of times another guy just ...

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Yeah, what could go wrong with putting private organizations in charge of military operations?

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Initially, I frankly botched my initial reaction, but my further response was that letters of marque and reprisal may be a better means of dealing with Kony.

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I am Gov. Gary Johnson. I am the founder and Honorary Chairman of Our America Initiative. I was the Libertarian candidate for President of the United States in 2012, and the two-term Governor of ...

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