In chapter 3 he presents his first strong statement as to the correct way for the prince to rule. He says new principalities will always lead to trouble, and the best way to deal with them is to be hard on the people. He says that it is worth the prince’s effort to do things that may harm a few people, and make some dissatisfied, and even angry with him as long as that will encourage the rest of the people in the state to obey him. This is a common theme throughout the prince. Machiavelli strongly believes that the best way to control the subjects is to cause them to fear you. Later on he compares and contrasts people who obey out of fear with those who obey out of love, a

nd he concludes fear is better because the people will be too scared to rebel, while if love motivates them, well, love is fickle and can change on a whim.

This is another concept that spans the ages. Today, this is even truer than it was 500 years ago. In an era of technology, and nuclear weapons, no country can afford to be without an army. The ruler not only has to study war, he must keep an army raised at all times in order to be prepared to defend his country. In a world of crazy people like Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein, there is no guarantee of safety. A ruler must adopt a policy of constant vigilance.

In fact I will even venture to say that even in the present day, there may be, under very specific circumstances, a reason for a new government to do that. I believe that in Iraq the only way to completely destroy all remnants of the current corrupt government is to kill all of the top officials, starting with Saddam Hussein. In this situation he is a man who does not deserve to live. He took advantage of the help the United States gave him, and went from an ally to an enemy to a mass murderer. He killed thousands of his people, and if allowed to continue, he would kill many thousands, if not millions more.

Another key point that Machiavelli makes is that a ruler’s main concern should be that of war. He says, “A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war…”It is very important for the ruler to be prepared at all times for war, be it a defensive war, or an offensive war. This was especially applicable in Machiavelli’s time when provinces were constantly fighting each other and people rebelling against their rulers. Machiavelli brings examples of rulers who were not prepared, who got lax in their study of war, and proceeded to get conquered and overthrown by rivals.

This can be seen in the extreme in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was extraordinarily cruel to his people, and the end result is that the Iraqi people were petrified to say anything against him or his government. Given that this an extreme, but what is to stop a ruler from carrying it to that extreme every time. In Iraq, it is so bad that even while American and British soldiers are liberating the people, they still are scared to express their true feelings. It is only when the individual Iraqi’s see the American and British soldiers, and can believe they are really free, do they start coming out of their shells. “’THANK YOU MR.BUSH’ says an Iraqi man as he slams a picture of Saddam with his shoe, meanwhile another man spits on the picture in celebration of being liberated.”

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