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>Of course there are some terrible externalities that we don’t price in... Like securing our energy interests in "difficult" parts of the world using an intell

>Of course there are some terrible externalities that we don’t price in... Like securing our energy interests in "difficult" parts of the world using an intelligence service so pricey that it's illegal for us to ask how pricey it is. (Along with a pricey military to go along with that intelligence service now that I think about it.)

CountSessine 8y ago
Come on. You and I know that America loves its army. You’d be doing this stuff even if it wasn’t to putter around in the Persian Gulf and supposedly make oil cheap (how’s that working out, BTW?) It’s already priced in.