171. John Mueller — The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency
The Michael Shermer Show
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You Can't Go Against the Military
The first job of a bureaucrat is to keep his job. The military still, despite the disaster the last 20 years, enjoys incredibly higha confidence ratings - much more than use car salesmen. I do it pretty hard in this book, arguing doit's, you know, what we get for this money? It hasn't been very good, particulary in years. And so it's going to be really hard too. You can't go against the military. But i don't know if i's going to have an effect, though.
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