A friend sent me Bob Murphy’s recent wall post:
Robert Murphy was flipping through the TV in the hotel room. On the History channel they were celebrating a sniper who apparently just broke the record for the longest kill shot. (He hit a Taliban guy from over a mile away.) They were interviewing him like he just won a hot dog eating contest. Regardless of your views on foreign policy, that is just sick.
My $.02: Despite the paleo praise of “the white man” and his culture, the fact is that “white people” have been, are, and seem determined to be nothing but a bunch of self-aggrandizing barbarians. The military culture is the cause, not the effect here. We are talking about a group of people that, for most of their history, saw nothing wrong with killing each other for sport. This is just the latest incarnation of that “glorious” cultural tradition.
Akiva is an observantly Jewish Austro-Libertarian. Stereotypically, despite his legal background, Akiva works in finance.
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February 21, 2011