Comments on: 17 Rules for Foreign Interventions

By: Lucklucky

Lucklucky — Mon, 01 May 2017 19:22:18 +0000

“Do not resist secessionist movements. They allow smaller groups to be satisfied with their governments. Be mindful of the happy fates of the parties to the ‘velvet divorce’ in Czechoslovakia, of the Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union.”

Good. No freedom without secession rights.

“Detest and abhor proportional representation in elections, allocating seats to large and small parties on the basis of their percentage of the national vote. This is what gave us Weimar, the Third and Fourth Republics, and the present Israeli Knesset.”

That is not very limited Government.

By: Wang Weilin

Wang Weilin — Mon, 01 May 2017 04:28:01 +0000

Sounds like generally good advice for domestic policy.

By: Graham

Graham — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 19:03:09 +0000

Although there’s a fair bit of [paleo]con thinking in there, it’s surprising how much of it could and should be the basis for common ground on right and left in foreign relations. Not much common ground given the left can no longer see a war it doesn’t like or the neocons either, but some.

But the Cold War experience and post-CW progressive thought have tainted US government irrevocably. You can never ever wean them off the idea of strong central government with strong economic levers and unifying tools over culture and society. And a republic. Has to be a republic.

They’ve got the universal nation-building playbook and they’re running it step by step.