re: #486 bratwurst

Newsflash: that makes them DUMB.

You don’t even have to go to a library and (gasp) crack open a book. You can get online and survey a number of sources (some good and unbiased, some bad and very biased) in minutes. People who don’t know shit about the Middle East (or Greece for that matter) but still want to opine on the topic are DUMB.

It’s the last part. People being ignorant is fine. I have very few views on foreign policy because it seems massively complex to me and the ‘experts’ seem to get everything wrong constantly anyway. I don’t think I know what to do; I’m ‘conservative’ in foreign policy in that i think intervention causes downstream problems that are unpredictable. Because of all this, I don’t think that my opinion on foreign policy is really worthwhile, especially if it’s of a country where I don’t know jack shit.
The people making confident predictions about what Putin will do next are the ones who seem dumb to me, no matter how ‘smart’ or well-informed they are