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My buddy and occasional-co-conspirator Crusade AXE of the Lost Causes has seconded my Modest Proposal that America should just come out of the closet and run a decent Empire, like it secretly wants anyhow: This is a good place to mention empire. We don’t want an empire and yet history has handed us one. We really don’t want to be …
It is entirely predictable that a group such as ISIS would emerge in the power vacuum of Syria and Iraq. After our policies of regime change, the Iraqi power structure was eviscerated and its Syrian counterpart greatly weakened, making sectarian conflict inevitable. Power abhors a vacuum, and so weakening the national regimes left jihadism as the only organizing force in …
So we’re at war with “ISIS.” I’d just like to point out that America is super-shitty at going to war with complex things. Domestically, our wars with cancer and poverty aren’t doing too well, and the War on Drugs is actually being won by the people on drugs. Nothing for the highlight reel there. Which brings us to our complex …
“Let the world become a brotherhood before it becomes a neighborhood,” is a 20th century expression that implores us to improve the quality of our relationships before technology increases their number and complexity. The bad news is that it’s too late for this sentiment. The world is connected and interdependent, yet we know little about our neighbors, little about that …