Darwin Principle???
WASHINGTON—SOMEONE in Vice President Dick Cheney’s office has gotten everybody on this city’s holiday party circuit talking, simply by floating an unlikely Iraq proposal that is worthy of a certain mid-19th century British naturalist with a fascination for natural selection.How is this analogous to natural selection? Natural selection would require that you actually allow the "fight to the death" to occur (and, of course, not invade the country in the first place). This is selective breeding. The resulting regime would probably suffer from hip dysplasia.
We shall call it the Darwin Principle.
The Darwin Principle, Beltway version, basically says that Washington should stop trying to get Sunnis and Shiites to get along and instead just back the Shiites, since there are more of them anyway and they’re likely to win in a fight to the death. After all, the proposal goes, Iraq is 65 percent Shiite and only 20 percent Sunni. - New York Times, December 17, 2006
Perhaps we could settle this dungeonmaster style by throwing two 10-sided dice. If the result is a number from 01 through 65, we back the Shiites, etc.
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