W's transcript

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Sat Mar 8 12:39:10 PST 2003


Doug wrote:


> Mainly because the U.S. without a rival is a frightening thing,

Is it any more frightening than the US with a rival? No matter whether or not you think the military adventurism of the US over the past decade has been a net good or bad, the Vietnam war (which was fought because the US had a strong rival) was worse (in terms of direct human costs) by many orders of magnitude than all future interventions combined.


> but also because many of the citizens of the FSU took a big material hit
> with its collapse.

They did, but it remains to be seen whether or not that hit will be outweighed by future benefits, right?

-- Luke


> Doug



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