People don’t owe you a pledge of allegiance
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Replying to @fardarter @henryfarrell and
People discussing foreign policy owe me a straight answer to a simple, highly relevant, and utterly crucial question.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @henryfarrell and
If I feel that my answer is being used to trap me into a place in a conversation where it will be read to entail something I don’t endorse, I also dig in my heels.
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Replying to @fardarter @henryfarrell and
At some point, refusing to give an answer becomes a very clear answer.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @fardarter and
Noah - come off it. If someone told you that you that you were “just a 12-year-old who likes impressing their parents with big words” and then started into harrumphing questions you wouldn’t respond either. You - on the basis of your own long declared policy - would block them.pic.twitter.com/hnt0rEVkqW
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Replying to @henryfarrell @Noahpinion and
People don't "owe you" answers or demonstrate their true evil beliefs by refusing to answer you, any more than you owe answers to the obnoxious commentators who you yourself regularly and reasonably blow off, or validate their suspicions by refusing to engage with them.
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Replying to @henryfarrell @Noahpinion and
I appreciate why you feel the way you do. The answer EB gave was not a good one. But it is perfectly reasonable for Nikhil to push back against the framing of the question for reasons already discussed and your response is not calculated to make anyone want to engage on substance
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Replying to @henryfarrell @Noahpinion and
Henry, why aren't you saying: (1) EB was provoked, and said something really stupid. (2) Nikhil's "identify the bigger problem: the “tankie” idea... [or] the idea that there is no alternative to US eternal military superintendence of the capitalist world-system?" is a... 1/
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Replying to @delong @henryfarrell and
..."Look! Halley's Comet!" distracto response to try to give cover to EB. (3) Places where the U.S. military has been dominant have, over the past 100 years, done better on average then places where the Red Army or the PLA or the Wehrmacht have been dominant... 2/
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Replying to @delong @henryfarrell and
(4) Taiwan is a very knotty problem, and discussion is badly served by stipulating an extreme situation that 100% justifies your preferred response, and then trying to argue to the case of Taiwan today by slippery slope. ? Yes, Noah is "just asking question" and trolling... 3/
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Let me just suggest that the invention of extreme scenarios to justify a preferred policy response has a bad history both in the recent past (Cheney 1% doctrine) and more distantly (domino theory). Refusing to indulge in these scenarios isn't, in fact, the same as being a tankie
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