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The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias)

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Do You Feel Like You've Got a Better Taste for Arguments?

I hope so, you know, it's hard to know. I mean, I have become a person who is a little more infused with self-doubt about things. My biggest takeaway from rock was actually about the credibility of the American foreign policy community and the wisdom of their overarching conceptual frameworks. The like just like giant fuck up of Iraq, right? It's like nobody there is like has really reassessed anything other than the specific technical implementation of an extended occupation of a Middle Eastern country. And I just think like the takeaways about WMDs and hegemony and the like significance of the region are all so much bigger than that.

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