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Originally Posted by Startup
The French once paid off the Vikings so the Vikings wouldn't rout them and destroy Paris. Instead of solving the problem, the various Viking clans came back again and again demanding more and more treasure and if Europe "pays off Osama" by giving into his demands, the same thing will happen.
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Don't forget the yearly pay-offs Rome made to Attila, the Visigoths, and the Vandals; the cause of the Fall of Rome.