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It might be kind of silly, but I think that the US government has to do a lot of shady things to ensure that we have a high standard of living and more of our s
by jimmywanger 10y ago
It might be kind of silly, but I think that the US government has to do a lot of shady things to ensure that we have a high standard of living and more of our share of natural resources.
Look up the origin of the term "banana republic" if you don't believe me. Or just look through how many things we did in South/Central America due to the doctrine of manifest destiny.
So if we have to do something bad to ensure a steady supply of oil at a reasonable price, sure. I can accept that.
But we should be discerning enough to figure out who to hire, and how to GET AWAY WITH IT to avoid repercussions. If you're the president, there's a lot more at stake here than your campaign - we're talking about full blown war.
- maxerickson 10y agoThe banality of evil and all that.
- PKop 10y agoThat's shadiness for the country's benefit you're describing, not shadiness for personal benefit to avoid criminal prosecution so you can get elected president... Shadiness to cover the tracks of previous shadiness to hide your own emails from FOIA requests.
- jimmywanger 10y agoThe question here is competence, and lack thereof. I think that skill in shadiness is transferrable across motives. If you can't plan a robbery of a convenience store for your own wallet, why should I let you plan the robbery of a bank to give it all away to charity? The ends (sorta) matter in a moralistic sort of way. But the means matter much more. You're playing for higher stakes here, not just criminal prosecution, but a low level brush war in the middle east if you mess things up.
- ookdatnog 10y ago> So if we have to do something bad to ensure a steady supply of oil at a reasonable price, sure. I can accept that. aka robbing from the poor and giving to the rich