How about this as a solution" Hmm. Getting imaginary solutions out of thin air, will do very little to solve this problem.
Hey, worth a try. Anything out of thin air is better than wasting more money on childish conflicts.
I guess from your answer Machjo you think the issues in the Arctic are some kind of joke.
Not at all. I think jumping to the military solution so fast is some kind of sick joke. We haven't even tried to establish these boundaries through international law yet, and yet are already desirous of militarization! What petty mindedness. Let's establish the boundary through just means via internaitonal law first, and then we could discuss militarization should such laws be violated later. But should such laws be respected from ther on in, no more issue. use the money for the advancement of civilization and not the destruction thereof.
Just look at us, ready to militarize over a piece of land while people are starving in this world. Heck, even the dumbest of animals has a better reason than that when it kills its prey!
Come on, has our culture really degenerated so much that militarization is as far as our imagination can bring us? What ever happened to our education. Has it really degenertated that much. Hey, let's start proving our ability to pick new solutions out of thin air rather than keep to the same solutions of 500 years ago.
A few buddies will get together and decide things. Sounds like a fun camping and hunting expedition.
Why not 99 people? Your answer sounds like many Canadians would like to have, "I don't want to get involved, I do not want to get engaged. Things will be fine, another beer please."
Why not 99? After all, I'd picked it out of thin air, no? And by the way, I don't drink. But good try. So as you can see, I don't tend to follow fashions so blindly, be they militarization or drinking.
Would you do this at work if there was a serious issue?
I always come up with imaginative solutions at work. Most of my collegues do too. We are an international Korean company in China composed of Koreans, Chinese and myself (the only Canadian there), though we had a japanese on our team a while back too. We are involved in education, translation and materials writing between 4 languages regularly, and sometimes 5! And I'm currently trying to link up with a Polish organization! We have no common language between us, though we can limit our communication between two languages to facilitate it (Chinese and Korean, and sometimes English if I'm really stuck). I seldom use English at work except for translation, correction and writing assignments. We've got a mixed bunch of Christian, atheist and other religions, at least one vegetarian, and a wide range of workplace philosophies. For our company to work well, we need a united team. And to have a united team, we need to establish a common corporate culture. This is next to impossible without a common language.
One of our strategies is to get newcomers to learn Chinese as quickly as possible. But it doesn't stop there. Since Koreans like to use English with the Chinese all the time, and sometimes show more interest in English than in Chinese, even in China, this sometimes leads to offense on the part of the Chinese staff.
Then we have differences in educational, translation and business philosophies. Strangely enough, I often find myself agreeing more with the Chinese staff than with the Korean, though one would think of the Koreans as more 'Westernized'. But the management is Korean. Needless to say, the Chinese staff and I get into hot water all the time. But then again, so does the Korean staff, for they do live in an environment foreign to them. Traditional Canadian solutions don't work, since we're not in Canada. Traditional Chinese solutions don't work either since we're not all Chinese. and traditional Korean solutions neither since we're not all Korean. In the end, the only solution is in fact to come up with new ideas, even if from out of thin air.
The situation in the North is the same. we are dealing with a new environment brought on by global warming, without precedent. So let's start off with a good precedent for crying out loud, rather than jumping like a bunch of kids to militarization until we've at least tried diplomacy first. And remember, since this si a new environment, with different players from diffrent nations and cultures with different interests, each experiencing a new situation, we can't just recycle old cold war ideas designed for a completely different geopolitical context from the one today.
Le'ts stop thining like cave men, shall we.
