that's what you get for not playing ball, maybe your neighbor who still has their nice things will be smart about it next time
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here's a foreign policy: if you piss us off we will decapitate your government and leave you to suffer through a generation of strife and turmoil
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the horrors will be unimaginable and we will accomplish it with a minimum of expense and the world will learn why never under any circumstances we should be crossed
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here's a foreign policy: warfare gives our youth something to do other than rebel, settling them on conquered land makes them proud stakeholders in society without pesky economic reform
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the death is very tragic and all, but on the other hand it leads to a more favorable gender balance for the men left over, which lends itself to stability and contentedness
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now, all of these approaches have a strong historical pedigree. morality or whatever aside, they serve some purpose or another when executed properly
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what is truly galling about modern american foreign policy is its purposelessness
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if there was a reasonable objective and sensible steps taken toward accomplishing it then you can debate if working toward such an end is right or wrong
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what we have now is a bunch of policy dipshits and politicians with no personal stake pushing forward the whole enterprise because of feelings, electability, whatever
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the whole thing ends up being an accounting trick where we go overseas and kill a million people as an excuse to shunt money to favored contractors
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maybe I just get too attached to history-as-narrative, it's not like any of the other great powers in their twilight were paragons of efficiency or sensibility
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it's just unbearable to watch
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