Helping. i think this explains what is going on with people when they think about libertarians are selfish. if you are on the left you probably believe your policies are the only expression of benevolence. you probably think as libertarians disagree with your policies they must only care about your pocket books. that doesn t make sense one because we have real arguments of whey the policies don t work. advocacy is cheap. if i advocate we have a 90 percent marginal tax rate on all income over 100,000 dollars if i advocate that that doesn t cost anything. if i give money to charity. government should have a bigger anti government policy. you have the warm glow of altruism when you generate that. you care when you put your money where your mouth because it costs something. when you are giving 90 percent of your income away or if you have 10 percent you are not showing you care.
Military strike. general dempsey thinks that the u.s. military can handle syria just fine. well, sure. they can handle if you re talking about sending 30 cruise missiles in, that s easy. that doesn t cost anything. that s a very easy thing to do. what i m saying is that you don t do that without as they say, that would be an act of war in the middle east. let me read you one quote. this is from general dempsey, the chairman of joints chief of staff who agrees with me. our military force is so degraded, so unready, it would be immoral to use force. i have to disagree with you, carol. i think you send something over there, you re using force and there s going to be repercussions and you have to remember that the chief threat in that whole part of the world is not syria, it s iran. and our intelligence has told us since 2007 that by 2015, a year and a half from now, they are going to have the weapon and the delivery system that would actually reach the eastern part of the united sta