Eh. He does not actually think the main problem with blasting Syrian children is the dollar cost.
It's just that our political discourse is so poisonous that there's kind of a need to address or pre-empt fiscal arguments because they CONSISTENTLY appear in the most BIZARRE situations. The point is that a neoliberal can't really say much to defend murdering Syrians, and they can't say "the money just doesn't exist!" because we're currently murdering Syrians.
Yeah I know it's fucked up but it's not to be taken at its face. I do agree there should be more deliberate talk of the pure evil of it, but in this scenario it's actually better sometimes to let the neoliberal stop themselves at the unspoken argument of "it's a big stupid George Bush style quagmire war, as opposed to a smart lib war" - instead of letting them try to nitpick like, oh but don't you know we're trying to target ISIS militants and blah blah blah
Eh. He does not actually think the main problem with blasting Syrian children is the dollar cost.
It's just that our political discourse is so poisonous that there's kind of a need to address or pre-empt fiscal arguments because they CONSISTENTLY appear in the most BIZARRE situations. The point is that a neoliberal can't really say much to defend murdering Syrians, and they can't say "the money just doesn't exist!" because we're currently murdering Syrians.
Yeah I know it's fucked up but it's not to be taken at its face. I do agree there should be more deliberate talk of the pure evil of it, but in this scenario it's actually better sometimes to let the neoliberal stop themselves at the unspoken argument of "it's a big stupid George Bush style quagmire war, as opposed to a smart lib war" - instead of letting them try to nitpick like, oh but don't you know we're trying to target ISIS militants and blah blah blah