Letters to the Editor
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Thaeus, very thoughtful - compare with debaser
he "calls for a massive infusion of money, as well as wholesale change as far as administration goes (native self-rule)" this has been proved a recipe for failure, not success. really, money? combined with corruption? the native population had a workable society (after all, it lasted thousands of years) but it was a HARD LIFE. who would condemn them to sled dogs and harpoons? but the materials for a modern life, snow mobiles, guns, take modern imports, oil, electricity, metals. that means MONEY. a money economy. just shoveling it in creates what, in your own child would be called a "trust fund baby". to be fully integrated (and so to earn a modern dollar) means not only education, but loss of native culture. it just happens that way. you can't have both. and you can't have it way up in the land of the midnight sun either. what industries are there? mining? using western industry and corporations? it's just a problem and money won't solve it. if *I* knew of native borns i'd advise them to keep their language, but learn english and migrate southward. what else can anyone thoughtful advise? as for (the usual) who say we went into iraq for oil. 3.5% of our oil comes from iraq, that's all. 72% of our imports come from just five countries, (google |US oil imports| the top site, too big to write) CANADA,MEXICO,SAUDI ARABIA,VENEZUELA, and NIGERIA.