I think that Afghanistan is largely also about who controls the trillion dollar heroin trade. Nothing new. It was the East India Company which got the European powers into the Opium Wars against China (which, naturally enough, wanted to stop the massive effort to addict its population to the drug so that the British wouldn't have to give them silver for their tea)
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If it wasnt for Winston Churchill, you'd be a Nazi speaking German today.
Sometimes leadership requires hard decisions. Not every decision can be structured as win-win.
Sometimes the only possible outcome from a decision is win-lose.
I remember something like that from the military. It was an exercise about a bomb shelter. You were given a list of people and you had to choose the one that would be left out. There were old people, rich, poor, skilled, unskilled, clergy, doctors, soldiers, pregnant women, children and the like.
The only wrong answer was to say you couldn't choose.
How is that relevant, even if true, to my comment?
Because your views are ultimately nihilistic.
You're not trying to be constructive, just shitting on the status quo.
We could all live in Utopia and you'd complain.
But I don't blame you, I like to shit on things too.
Which view(s) are you referring to? Perhaps you are projecting?
Sorry, I should rephrase, because views can't really be nihilistic. My charge is that your philosophy is nihilistic. So, what do you believe in? If nothing, then you're a nihilist. If something, we can work from there.
I think you're a nihilist because I once said the things you say, when I was a nihilist. You could call that projecting, but I call it sympathizing.