He briefly taught economics, but had apparently set his sights on being an economics "commentator and pundit" (seems redundant) long before when he entered grad school. Like most economics bloggers/columnists, he seems to consider himself an expert on absolutely everything. Tiresome it might be, but perhaps HN isn't the best place from which to throw stones. ;)
> it’s difficult to draw the line between interventions that prevent conflict and interventions that stir it up. Was the Vietnam War a U.S. attempt to halt a North Vietnamese takeover of South Vietnam, or was it the U.S. intervening in an internal South Vietnamese civil war? The answer depends on your point of view.
Why does anyone pay any attention to this blathering?
> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.
> Over the past two decades it had become fashionable to lambast American hegemony, to speak derisively of “American exceptionalism”, to ridicule America’s self-arrogated function of “world police”, and to yearn for a multipolar world. Well, congratulations, now we have that world. See if you like it better.
