When every policy choice was terrible, finding the least bad one became the only way forward.
“You’re shitting me, right?” I asked Denis McDonough. He was the White House chief of staff, and he was standing in my office doorway on an evening in late August 2013.
“No, I’m serious,” he said. “I was just on my nightly walk with the president, and he thinks we should pause and first go to Congress.”
I was stunned. President Barack Obama had suddenly decided not to order missile strikes on Syria immediately, as planned, but first to get congressional approval for U.S. military action in response to Syria’s horrific use of chemical weapons. Denis said a small group of us would soon gather in the Oval Office to discuss this further with the president. As national security adviser for less than two months, I’d already chaired several National Security Council principals-committee meetings on our response to Syria’s violation of the president’s so-called red line on the use of chemical weapons. Nearly 2,000 people, including many children, had been killed by the Syrian regime in a sarin-gas attack on the Ghouta region. At that point, almost all the NSC principals believed we needed to act militarily to demonstrate to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that he could not violate international law by using deadly gas against civilians without paying a price.
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WNU Editor: It is amazing how nothing really changes .
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@wnu yup
But it's also because how the world is currently set up, think of it
1. We have like around 200 countries/nation states/claimed territories with new govs forming - ALL of them with conflicting interests and ALL armed to the teeth
2. Everything is powered by money. Everything. Run out of money and you die / are barely able to take part in society/get good healthcare/education and on top, money is scarce end hugely unevenly distributed by a crazy system we call capitalism and which is implemented in various ways in every nation
3. We are basically monkeys who walk around in a decaying meat body and driven/influenced by things we are not consciously aware of: epigenetics influence our fears and desires; gut biom can influence what we want to eat and alter our diet; we sleep like 8hrs or 1/3 of our entire life! Like more than 20 years is sleep
So yeah I could go on and on. Change will come but billions more will die beforehand. And even if we are ruled by a benevolent AI, humans are incredibly different. Some will try to destroy that AI (and they might succeed, given the nature of who/what we are)
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