The Blood Bath Problem in Cambodia

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If if we would a hung in there, or sent more troops, or done something to do what we did in corea, would the outcome have been the same? We know it well. Mak such us argument from hindsight. But you don't make that conclusion for via nam. Well, te promis wars ta kill people. In afghanistan's people flee. It is worse than going along at the taliban aover time,. trying to work with his burkwit sawthe arabian pakistan and maybe get things mellowed.

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.