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TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2021

When thievery is resorted to for the means with which to do good, compassion is killed. Those who would do good with the loot then lose their capacity for self-reliance, the same as a thief's self-reliance atrophies rapidly when he subsists on food that is stolen. And those who are repeatedly robbed of their property simultaneously lose their capacity for compassion.

F.A. Harper, Essays on Liberty [1952]

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July 27, 2021
Wrong Lessons from the Afghanistan Debacle and Defeat
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, interventionists are not learning the real lessons in their defeat in Afghanistan. Instead, they are coming up with all sorts of reasons as to why their Afghanistan intervention turned out to be such a big debacle. They say that they’ve learned how to do better with future interventions. One of the favorite lessons they have learned from this fiasco ...
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