2026-03-16

Stimulus

Khanna on Fox News: "There was no imminent threat. Now there's a threat to the United States. We've created a threat."

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Response

War 's a brain-spattering, windpipe-slitting art, / Unless her cause by right be sanctified. / If you have acted once a generous part, / The world, not the world's masters, will decide — Byron

You are ‘the best of cut-throats:’—do not start; The phrase is Shakspeare’s, and not misapplied: War ’s a brain-spattering, windpipe-slitting art, Unless her cause by right be sanctified. If you have acted once a generous part, The world, not the world’s masters, will decide, And I shall be delighted to learn who, Save you and yours, have gain’d by Waterloo?

Lord Byron, “Don Juan: Canto IX”

Pipeline

Triage: A stark claim about how power generates the very dangers it claims to prevent — a perennial subject of political poetry about the self-justifying logic of authority and violence.
The problem: The paradox that institutions justify their own expansion by pointing to threats they themselves have manufactured — the closed loop of self-perpetuating authority.
Search queries: the creation of danger through force and intervention, power producing the threats it claims to address, rhetoric of security masking the appetite for war
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