tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1138570918413841323.post3985211767344490337..comments2024-02-23T03:29:54.261-05:00Comments on The Unreligious Right: Four Options for Afghanistan?UNRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17093711439992855042noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1138570918413841323.post-16957863045481648412009-02-26T08:26:00.000-05:002009-02-26T08:26:00.000-05:00"Never mind that this is psychopathic"I don't see ..."Never mind that this is psychopathic"<BR/><BR/>I don't see anything psychopathic about it. It's a realist view. Although, I wouldn't agree with completely freezing development efforts -- that's partially what I meant by saying that I agreed with him with modifications.<BR/><BR/>". Paul Collier has shown that each state failure costs the world economy about $100 billion dollars."<BR/><BR/>I'm extremely skeptical of such calculations. And even if correct, economics are only one facet of foreign policy. The costs of trying to turn a state into a democracy, against the will of many of its people, are also very high.UNRRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17093711439992855042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1138570918413841323.post-3718371867819635172009-02-26T00:37:00.000-05:002009-02-26T00:37:00.000-05:00"Freeze development efforts. Ignore the opium. Kil..."Freeze development efforts. Ignore the opium. Kill the fanatics."<BR/><BR/>Never mind that this is psychopathic - it ignores the research about the ramifications of state failure. Paul Collier has shown that each state failure costs the world economy about $100 billion dollars. And that's an average - it's likely higher when the state in question produces international terrorism whenever it doesn't have a stable non-terrorist government.Alon Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12195377309045184452noreply@blogger.com