Mises Institute > Cato Institute > Niskanen Center. No questions asked. Mises is the only of the three that is truly
committed to an unwavering intellectual consistency. Cato has some beltway insiders. Niskanen is
full blown classical liberal. Not much
libertarian about them.
Brittany Hunter with an insightful view of the sunk cost
fallacies efforts to keep us at war in Afghanistan.
“It is this belief that we are
already in too deep, so we might as well double-down and keep going …
Trump’s plan for
Afghanistan is no different. It almost
sounds as if Trump has put little to no effort into studying the issue of
American foreign policy. The mission he spells out is the same mission we have
been engaged in for years, and it just doesn’t work.
If we get out of Afghanistan now and don’t ever look back, America
will still have to deal with the 2,386 deaths and the 20,049 wounded military
personnel resulting from our presence in the country. These numbers are dismal
and depressing, but they can always get worse.
Staying in this war will only double, if not triple or quadruple
these numbers. There is nothing to be gained and everything to be lost. Yet,
just like that ridiculously expensive dress I purchased and forced myself to
continue wearing, Trump is effectively multiplying the negative repercussions
of war.”
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