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> A failed state with 1.3 billion people would be a huge headache. Here's one of the most interesting deceptive phenomenon that almost all the modern human fai
by jjcc 10y ago
> A failed state with 1.3 billion people would be a huge headache.
Here's one of the most interesting deceptive phenomenon that almost all the modern human failed to detect. That's why the states have so many headaches and will continue to have more headaches.
A rational politician should control his/her own strong desire from ideology(i.e. eager to spread the value of democracy/universal human rights all over the world) to avoid the "huge headache". But the reality is irrational politicians driven by their strong belief pretend to be rational so others think their decision is based on reasoning.
A famous example as I mentioned in another post is Mr.Obama blamed G.W.Bush, who created headache of Iraq with a naive view that he was doing good thing to Iraqis, but Obama created Libya headache by himself. What he criticized Bush in words is just a way of showing he had a better judgement and more reasonable than Bush so he can win in election. His behavior shows there's little difference.
Another example is Politicians like to talk "US interests". Most people might not think of the WORD is just a way to show other people they are rational. Their behavior not always really align with US interest.
Next time when you hear a politician saying "A failed state with 1.3 billion people would be a huge headache and against US interest", don't be so confident they are the same as you. Politicians are special specie extremely good at creating wrong impression to other people.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoI don't think Obama created the Lybia headache, they were already breaking up (failing) with the Arab Spring way before the USA intervened. The USA also didn't kill Gaddafi, there was no oil to procure, and it was a NATO action anyways. Contrast to Iraq, that was all on the USA. The people weren't revolting, no civil war, there was just no reason for us to go there. Obama is very different from GW Bush.
- rjsw 10y agoThe push to do something in Libya was from Europe, it does have plenty of oil though.
- dmode 10y agoYour overall point is accurate, but the example is bad. Obama did not deliberately intervene in multiple middle eastern countries to "spread democracy". Remember the Iran demonstrations and there were calls for US intervention and we got silence from Obama. Or when Mubarak was facing the heat, still no intervention. Same for Syria or Sudan or Somalia or any of the other countries that were failing.