The perpetual conflict and instability in the region is partially being kept alive by intellectuals, he claimed, as “they can’t grasp the notion that that’s how wars are resolved, one side defeating the other and the other side crying uncle and giving up…. Their emotion and compassion get in the way of logical thinking.”
While Israel has debatably won the war against Hamas and Hezbollah, despite not yet having achieved all the goals it set out for the conflict, Lippman acknowledged that there was a key front the Jewish state was sorely losing in: the diplomatic war.
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Unfortunately, nations seldom succeedively produce leaders of the high caliber of Donald Trump, and the US Constitution has put a term limit on this window of opportunity.
This is how the people think that are forcing us into war with Iran and it should legitimately terrify you on this war’s eve.
There’s a weirdly vacant amorality about modern issues. I think the MIC shuffle goes something like
-CEO is obligated to enhance shareholder value, so supplies weapons (stand-in for lossy shit that doesn’t help QoL of most people), Company spreads manufacturing around a bunch of regions in a country -Government permits arm sales because otherwise weapons mfgs would cut jobs (and couldn’t develop as many new weapons for the Gov’s use)
Truly breaking out of this will probably require courage and PPE that our electeds don’t have