So you’re saying that some warlords are better to live under than others. That’s not a terribly controversial claim.JasonL wrote: ↑15 Sep 2018, 00:15I think you lack imagination of the effect of bad actors really running the show. This is a bit like that thing where there’s not real difference between US and DPRK because all government illegitimate. Yeah but ... take a look that’s not real. The thing where biggest bully warlords extort and rape and pillage all day - that’s actually a thing.
But just because the extortion and rape and pillaging conducted by the US is less severe than that done by the worst imaginable doesn’t render the former a legitimate government and the latter not.