Thursday, May 26, 2011

Worthwhile Sentences on Interventionism

From Mark Zuckerberg: "A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa."

From Tate Watkins: "What if an international peacekeeping force had descended into Charleston after Confederate troops bombarded Fort Sumter?"

From Planet Money: "Has any single human being, either directly or indirectly, cost the United States more money than Osama bin Laden?"

From John Mueller and Mark Stewart: "The cumulative increase in expenditures on US domestic homeland security over the decade since 9/11 exceeds one trillion dollars."

From Paul Valery: “Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.”

1 comment:

  1. I believe the quote comes from the book "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World". Of course I wasn't (nor I think was Zuckerberg) suggesting this is a good thing. Just a reality. In fact he wasn't the first to suggest this. Adam Smith did it 200 years ago: http://cafehayek.com/2008/05/adam-smith-on-t.html

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