Can a person be bought? What price would it be?

My partner and I were just in a very serious conversation. It had to do with wars and the presidents who started what and why. I don't get why our leaders, who could be doing other things, making other things better seem to want to get us into battles, especially the Republicans. There are more wars started and carried out when they are in office. She brought up that Clinton had started a war too, and I did remember Kosivo(a NATO action), but I didn't remember an actual war. What it was, was the memory of the three/four day bombing that Clinton did of Iraq in order as the idea went to bring about a change of government. She brought up that the oil companies, munitions companies and weapons makers are making the money. I was not amused as we in this country have lost over 2 million jobs in the last few years. The housing market is going down hill, course not many of us everyday folks can afford the way over inflated cost of a house to begin with, but still. We as a country are greatly in debt, if China and Canada wanted they could call on the loans and they would own "our" country. Do the ones in power bring up such things? No they work to hide them as much as possible.

She was getting into it about all the last few presidents starting wars when the people they were going to war with could have been bought out in the beginning. I didn't think they could and had some memories of a time when we as a political force went to other countries and tried to work out deals. Course this was with the governments of the countries, not the Bin Ladens, the terrorists.

She thought we could buy out people like Bin Laden in the beginning before it got bad, buy out those who want to kill Americans and Israelis, ones who think that taking over and killing is the way to get what they want, as some of the ones in Africa are doing. Plain out right the terrorists. She thinks that in buying them out we could have gotten them onto another path that wouldn't have been so bad for everyone.
I don't think they can be, could never have been bought out. I think once we satisfied one thing they would just go on to wanting something else and as we had appeased them the first time they would think that they could just keep doing it. Isn't that what happened with Hitler? Isn't that what happened with Stalin? Mao? Our own president Bush? (and his religious right cronies) What more can we give them that maybe we can get them to think and do other things and let us live our lives safely, with out loosing anything that make us all viable people?

"Blood on one's hands is still blood" was her words, "how do you see the degrees of that ?"
While I see there are other ways to do things, I do also see that sometimes one needs to fight. No it isn't healthy to go into war, nor does it really bring any good, but it can get the attention of the ones who can stand up and stop the madness. It can and does bring others together to talk and to get other things going. Yes, blood is blood, yes this country is a bully and has been for many years. It didn't exactly start that way. It doesn't have to stay that way either. I am a warrior, I have to pick and choose my battles. I would rather not as there are so many things that can be done by the warriors and it's not only in physical fighting that warriors can make things happen. It is by showing we are not afraid to lead, to show the better ways to do things, to teach in ways that others don't understand. The passion of wanting better for the people is the way of the teacher and the warrior. We see in large pictures not in small ones. We don't go for immediate satisfaction, we look to the long run.

Where are the leaders who would lead in honesty? Where are the leaders who would speak for us in a voice that promotes the future and what we as a human race can be? Can the world be that out of it that the leaders are afraid to stand and speak for the better things to all humans? Do we have to continue being separated because of spiritual beliefs, national beliefs, and so many more?