Critics of yourself and pinker point out that when you say a, the decline international wars, there's been no international wars. This is kind of an accounting trick. Youre not counting those proxy wars like korea and bianom as international wars. But in fact, they really are. We're just fighting them more indirectly. So its international society may become less civil in some sense, because you don't have to worry bout war. And so consequently, you can do things that are unseemly oror ora insult a, and get away with it where you couldn'td so much in the past. In some respects, it's like duelling. At one time
In this conversation based on his new book, The Stupidity of War, political scientist John Mueller argues that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats — including during the Cold War — have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. With international war in decline, complacency and appeasement become viable diplomatic devices and a large military is scarcely required.