Ron Paul Interviews Nassim Taleb: “We’ll Destroy What Needs To Be Destroyed”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
May 21, 2017
Why do career bureaucrats in Washington keep pushing military interventionism and irresponsible monetary policies? Because they face zero risk from the consequences of their decisions, said Nassim Nicholas Taleb during an appearance on the Liberty Report with former Texas Congressman Dr. Ron Paul and his co-host Daniel McAdams.
The conversation focused on some of the themes from Taleb’s upcoming book, “Skin in the Game,” which will be out later this year, including how the homogenous intellectual elite who shape American foreign policy have managed to stay in power despite decades of persistently advancing foolish interventionist policies.
“Let’s imagine you have pilots who were absolutely unharmed by crashes. People are stupid enough to put them back on planes. Then they would crash a plane, kill all passenger and continue. Well, that system would lead to complete systemic destruction.”
“And that’s what we have now with our foreign policy.”
Since World War II, the U.S. has embarked on military interventions in Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria that have led to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. Even President Trump, who at one point promised an “America First” foreign policy of nonintervention, instead launched 59 tomahawk missiles at Syria based on unsubstantiated intelligence reports that the Syrian Army used chemical weapons against civilians in the country’s north.
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