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Oh hey, that's an idea. Why didn't we think of that earlier? Hey everybody lets just stop wars! Unfortunately, there will always be bad people and the only w

Oh hey, that's an idea. Why didn't we think of that earlier? Hey everybody lets just stop wars! Unfortunately, there will always be bad people and the only way to keep the innocent safe is for good people to step in and do difficult things.

yk 8y ago
In particular the DoD. It's not like the Iraq war helped anybody except turning Al-Qaeda from 500 people on the verge of getting kicked out of Afghanistan into an army large enough to have it's own internal civil war in Syria. And there are a lot cheaper ways to accomplish that.
wruza 8y ago
And most good people concentrated in one set of countries and most bad people concentrated in another. It’s not grids of interests and interesting consequences, it’s just a distribution, man! All bad guys just happen to be over there hating you. Just because you’re better and know better. /s Surprisingly, most of the times you don’t get bites by simply not sticking your nose into every wasp nest. Still, doing that creates enough chaos and green light to “protect by any means necessary”.
- erikpukinskis 8y ago
  It’s not too hard to look up what kinda of childhood experiences create “bad people”. If your economy is 100x your target, you just pay to make those things happen more often. Wait 20 years and you have a bunch of bad people who hate us. Instant war. Billions to be made. Pretty neat plan. Not sure how it ends.
  - wruza 8y ago
    It doesn’t. Military and politicians can now control how much hate there is via slight moves here and there. The end seems when otherwise smart people would stop claiming things like “war is human nature”, “don’t look at the military background of good deeds” and would finally open their eyes to see what psychopaths they are electing on and on. Until then it is a positive feedback loop. And this is not specific to US, if that matters.

yk 8y ago

In particular the DoD. It's not like the Iraq war helped anybody except turning Al-Qaeda from 500 people on the verge of getting kicked out of Afghanistan into an army large enough to have it's own internal civil war in Syria. And there are a lot cheaper ways to accomplish that.

wruza 8y ago

And most good people concentrated in one set of countries and most bad people concentrated in another. It’s not grids of interests and interesting consequences, it’s just a distribution, man! All bad guys just happen to be over there hating you. Just because you’re better and know better. /s Surprisingly, most of the times you don’t get bites by simply not sticking your nose into every wasp nest. Still, doing that creates enough chaos and green light to “protect by any means necessary”.

erikpukinskis 8y ago
It’s not too hard to look up what kinda of childhood experiences create “bad people”. If your economy is 100x your target, you just pay to make those things happen more often. Wait 20 years and you have a bunch of bad people who hate us. Instant war. Billions to be made. Pretty neat plan. Not sure how it ends.
- wruza 8y ago
  It doesn’t. Military and politicians can now control how much hate there is via slight moves here and there. The end seems when otherwise smart people would stop claiming things like “war is human nature”, “don’t look at the military background of good deeds” and would finally open their eyes to see what psychopaths they are electing on and on. Until then it is a positive feedback loop. And this is not specific to US, if that matters.