Jonah Goldberg is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, an online media company, and is widely recognized for his conservative commentary, columns, and best-selling books like *Liberal Fascism*. He also hosts The Remnant podcast and is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
“Supply-side corporate welfare leads us into such things as actually subsidizing Iran's oil industry while we were at war with it.”
This quote exposes a critical and counterintuitive critique of corporate welfare, alleging it can lead to paradoxical and dangerous foreign policy outcomes, such as inadvertently aiding an adversary during conflict.
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“I believe we won in a very messy and potentially unnecessary way the war in Iraq, in that Saddam Hussein is no longer in control and a government that we installed still is.”
Presents a highly controversial view of the Iraq War's outcome, focusing on regime change as a metric for victory despite its messy execution and high costs.
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“One way to think about this is at the end of this, who is more likely to say, 'let's not do that again.' That's the way you think about deterrence... We're also dealing with a regime that actually doesn't care about losses in the same way that we care about losses. This is a regime that had teenagers run through minefields, catastrophic child casualties. And the regime just sent them across minefields. So you have a cost benefit analysis on one side that's just different from ours.”
This quote incisively explains the fundamental challenge of deterrence when facing an adversary with a vastly different calculus of acceptable losses, highlighting the complexities of asymmetrical conflict and strategic planning.
Jonah Goldberg