05-29-2017, 04:18 AM
(05-28-2017, 07:10 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(05-28-2017, 02:18 AM)Galen Wrote:(05-27-2017, 06:49 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: Zbigniew Brzezinski. I'll miss his generally-wise commentary.
You do realize that it was his ideas about Afghanistan in the wake of the Soviet occupation that led to our current situation with Al-Qaeda and ISIS. He was as much of a destructive asshole as Kissinger was for pretty much the same reasons.
Unintended consequences can be horrible. Malign intent can do incomparably worse.
If you want to push culpability back, then you can blame the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
It would have been best to leave that one alone since Afghanistan is also known as the "Graveyard of Empires". Carter screwed up because if he had learned the economics of Mises and Rothbard and understood the history of the region he would have known that Soviet occupation would have brought down the the Soviet Union anyway without the entertaining consequences we face today.
He is still culpable for giving bad advice.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises