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171. John Mueller — The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency

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The Wisdom of War

After world war one, that word was used a lot. Mark twain in particular just said, this is a ridiculous, stupid activity. Why would you d aything that stupid? A quite apart from whether people got killed or not. Yet, there are sociologists that study social change like that. Like making fun of belonging to k k is one way of of getting rid of it. But instead of thatt happeng very much, a duel that happent very much o duelling. And a wars like the actt i had to quote in the book froma norman schwartzkoff. Let me get this here. M, yes, war is a prof

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