War: Big Government's Best Friend

Bestselling author Tom Woods speaks at the Mises Institute's seminar at Furman University, "War: Big Government's Best Friend." Sponsored by the Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow. http://www.TomWoods.com http://furmancsbt.org/default.aspx

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[darkisato]

people don't like you because of ur awesomeness.

[leomeyer11]

now i see why mark levin did not want to debate tom woods on the war issue!

[mmedefarge]

I didn't say that all ambitious people were sociopaths, I said that sociopaths are well represented in the higher echelons of the business world & politics precisely because they are so unremittingly ruthless. There are ethical business leaders (Warren Buffett, for example) just as there are ethical lawyers but neither of these two occupations lend themselves easily to "ethics".

[mmedefarge]

You know very little about real U.S. history & what you do know is horseshit. Look up the Iran-Contra hearings. Look up the "School of the Americas". The Muslim countries aren't attacking us because of their backwards religious beliefs; they've had those for 1,000 yrs. We want their oil & we've been kissing Israel's ass for yrs. Invading Iraq was not a "mistake",  Not only do they have oil but now we've got iran squeezed between our presence in Iraq & Afghanistan.

[Midcal9]

You have no idea what a Sociopath is, someone who has a desire to rise high and achieve something significant, especially in business world is could be described by being a rational egoist, not sociopath. You won't see any difference though, fuckwits and bum breath like you see anything that isn't guilt ridden or self abnegating as sociopath. Political figures is a whole another topic but what's the point, really.

[Midcal9]

Not a single one of them was a puppet government. Some of them were established with some help of US govt and they didn't do anything which was directly against it but they weren't remotely controlled by USA even one bit. You're a fool.

[mmedefarge]

to Midcal9 Sociopaths often climb to the heights in both business & gov't precisely because they are so ruthless & are often charismatic. Pres. Eisenhower warned of the collusion of gov't with business in an "military-industrial complex & that is exactly what has happened. In the U.S., corporations have taken over the gov't. That is why we are in so many wars both overt & covert; war is very lucrative. Expect to see more.

[mmedefarge]

He marches in lockstep with whatever the prevailing wind is at the time. It took him this long to even to think for himself, for once. Let's see, puppet gov'ts, in Philippines, of course S. Vietnam, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haití, Panamá, Honduras, Guatemala, all our Banana Republics. Iran HAD a democratically elected gov't prior to our invasion of "53 but we couldn't control them (we were so afraid they'd turn Red - at least that was the spin) so we overthrew them & installed the Shah.

[Midcal9]

What he said gives him credence on bases of being right, not where he posted/said it. No one is raping their resources or exploiting their people. I'd like to see one puppet government which was set up by West before Iraq. The closest one would be Iran but as far as I'm concerned it was far better than anything they've got afterwards. The rest of what you've said shows how little you know about both Obj. and psychopathy.

[mmedefarge]

Right "look it up on YT", that gives it credence. Sociopaths are very rational, at least to the totally self-absorbed. The backwards unwashed are venting their fury on us for invading their countries, raping their resources, exploiting their people & setting up puppet govts.. Whenever we do this, it has a way of coming back to bite us on the ass. Objectivism is just an Ayn Randism, an attempt to justify sociopathic behavior on a grand scale.

[Midcal9]

I'm pretty sure you'll consider me to be a sociopath as well since I'm an Objectivist, shouldn't even have bothered with you.

[Midcal9]

Wow, you do actually think that those people are sociopaths because they watch his videos. You might wanna look up the word ratiopath on youtube and it will give you a good idea of what I am talking about. I personally couldn't care less about people who are a part of a backward culture which despises my own values anyways so I might as well enjoy watching Combat footage of US soldiers destroying brainwashed totalitarian Muslims. I will agree though that war in Iraq was a mistake.