The Importance of Competence in International Relations

Dan O'Brien: I don't think this the solution was not because we lived. Most people would be like well you know folks who are in politics maybe need to care about this i might want to get the broad strokes of it but random people you know shouldn't be influencing what's going on with these international relations and that's how you get shit like the dolus brothers carrying out coups all over the world on behalf of the u.s. government where most americans are like what are we doing Guatemala? He says once you get out of your area of competence it's easy to get fooled by a con artist. "If there's a bunch of people who trust you