“We have no problem with the police intervening to end a criminal shootout. So why do we so passionately oppose having the U.S. federal state intervene in Syria and other places? There are multiple reasons. The Feds have a really bad track record (you can read a summary here); Tend to support bad guys and establish dictatorships; Constantly create new enemies; Force all Americans to support these interventions, even when they offend personal conscience. But does this mean that we have to sit idly by and watch bad things happen to good people overseas? We don’t think so. Instead, imagine what would happen if we had a Separation of Intervention and State.”
http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/whom-would-you-hire-to-intervene-in-syria
Related posts:
The State: Crown Jewel of Human Social Organization
Syria and Second Passports
Choosing the Best Possible Life
Reflections on 9/11 and the High Cost of Waging War in the Middle East
Snowden leaks: the real take-home
Debt addiction, USA: How much debt reduction has the crisis caused?
Crooked Judges Want Your Kids for Cash
Money Down a Rathole: College, Healthcare, Housing
John Whitehead, America’s Reign of Terror: A Nation Reaps What It Sows
David Galland: Toad Tossing
Is Bitcoin a Viable Currency?
Top 10 tips to learn a language
Hold US Policymakers to Their Abysmal Record on Foreign Meddling
Bubble Symmetry and Housing
The New, Improved 1984
