brewster wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:58 pm
Isn't running government like a business a core tenet of Conservatism? Businesses know where their money goes and where their shit is. This whole thing seems like Marxism for the Military. It's the same lack incentives to actually work. If productivity is never quantified, then success is whatever the brass says it is, just like the Politburo. We talk about Stalin throwing away Divisions on the Eastern front, but we throw away our trillions with the same lack of accountability. In both cases all that matters is winning, and not the cost. In fact our problem is worse, since so many like Smitty and pork eaters are cheering the waste on.
I joke about Military Keynsianism, but my little fantasy is just that. But for me, it is a mere stage to the end goal. NOTE: I'm not a Conservative, Classic Liberal here, that is the end goal.
Current military strategery in the ME is not about winning at all. It's all about stability operations and making the ME safe for resource extraction. Can't let the crazies in dirty night shirts control the crude. Can't let independent sheiks not aligned with NATO have control of the crude. This is Progressivism in play, they think they can nation build the ME into a Neo-Liberal land that pumps oil for us. It's Dan Carlin's give them blue jeans and rock n roll failing. It doesn't work for me. I don't want the Progressive foreign policy.
Military Keynesianism is the worst possible kind, you have nothing to show for it, productivity without a purpose. It's a game the military really has no incentive to end. At least transportation infrastructure we would have for another half century. And if we put a fraction of the resources devoted to keeping oil cheap and flowing into developing alternatives, we could walk away from that mess. More money has vanished into the ME shithole by orders of magnitude than was lost on Solyndra.
We are only accustomed to dealing with like twenty online personas at a time so when we only have about ten people some people have to be strawmanned in order to advance our same relative go nowhere nonsense positions. -TheReal_ND
