What's the Exogenous Forestright Education?

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After 19 forty five europeans said, el, we're not going to do that again. That's ofan exogenous forestright education. People are more exposed to gay people on television. O allan degenerous, comes out as gay,. and so on and forth, and it becomes more acceptable. You might call it meams that spread through culture, something like that. So back to your anti war movement, maybe that's one of the exogenous forces.

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.