The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Friday Deep Thoughts (Open Thread!)

    By Michael Maiello on Fri, 09/12/2014 - 9:26am | Politics

    When U.S. trade policies wreck entire industries and cause unemployment, our answer is "train the workers."

    When U.S. foreign policies wreck entire regions, sending them into a tailspin of ethnic, religious and economic violence and chaos our answer is "train the local armies to deal with it."

    I think we need to combine these two things to turn the unemployed into the world's most effective killing machine.  I mean, it's just synergy, right?

    **End of Week Open Thread!**

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    To a certain degree, one could argue we're already doing that, at least internally. As I understand it, the majority of our volunteer military comes from communities with significant unemployment.


    by Verified Atheist on Fri, 09/12/2014 - 9:28am

    Yeah, we're doing it.


    by Michael Maiello on Fri, 09/12/2014 - 9:42am