Complacency Would Have Been Better

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In most cases, a policy more or less complacency would have been better. The Soviet Union never in a million years had an interest in getting obvouse nuclear war. At that time, non fart is a limited probe in a far corner of the world,. which was basic atit was. But after 11, they got three or four icpakot, ten or a hundred people saying how everyan in intelligence and every place else saw 9/11 as this ccosmic change - it's unlikely to happen again.

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.