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Good advice from Eric Margolis

Here is an excerpt from
VLAD THE BAD STEALS A MARCH ON THE WEST
by Eric Margolis
http://ericmargolis.com/2014/03/vlad-the-bad-steals-a-march-on-the-west/

The US won’t accept that Russia has any legitimate spheres of influence, while Washington’s span the globe. Last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry, who used to be a sensible fellow before becoming corrupted by power, blasted Russia: “you just don’t invade a country under a phony pretext!”

I guess Kerry has never heard of the US invasions of the Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Libya. Or can’t remember Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin “incident.”

Kerry should cut the hypocrisy and get to work on a diplomatic settlement. Two major nuclear-armed powers cannot – must not – be allowed to confront one another.

Ukraine could turn out to be the 1914 Bosnia-Herzegovina of our era if we don’t stop primitive breast-beating over a region no one could even find on a map until recently.

International Trade – THE IOWA CAR CROP

Steven Landsburg, The Armchair Economist
THE IOWA CAR CROP

http://www.walkerd.people.cofc.edu/Readings/Trade/iowacarcrop.pdf

“International trade is nothing but a form of technology. The fact that there is a place called Japan, with people and factories, is quite irrelevant to Americans’ well-being. To analyze trade policies, we might as well assume that Japan is a giant machine with mysterious inner workings that convert wheat into cars.”

Thoughtful Article on Immigration

From:
Social Theory and Practice
Volume 36, Issue 3, July 2010
by: Michael Huemer

Is There a Right to Immigrate?

Immigration restrictions violate the prima facie right of potential immigrants not to be subject to harmful coercion. This prima facie right is not neutralized or outweighed by the economic, fiscal, or cultural effects of immigration, nor by the state’s special duties to its own citizens, or to its poorest citizens. Nor does the state have a right to control citizenship conditions in the same way that private clubs may control their membership conditions.

Click here for full article: Is There a Right to Immigrate?

Insanity is knowing what not to do but doing it anyway

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth?… And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we’d achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq…. All of a sudden you’ve got a battle you’re fighting in a major built-up city, a lot of civilians are around, significant limitations on our ability to use our most effective technologies and techniques…. Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place? You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq…. Now what kind of government are you going to establish? Is it going to be a Kurdish government, or a Shi’ia government, or a Sunni government, or maybe a government based on the old Baathist Party, or some mixture thereof? You will have, I think by that time, lost the support of the Arab coalition that was so crucial to our operations over there.
– Dick Cheney, Speech to the Discovery Institute [1992]
Thanks to

Future of Freedom Foundation for supplying this text.