You know I prefer the U.S. just go immediately and leave it all to the Afghans to work out, but this is still good and full of important and interesting history.
We Can’t Consume Our Way to Prosperity
Once upon a time, John Stuart Mill could write these words truthfully ("Of the Influence of Consumption on Production," 1844): It is no longer supposed that you benefit the producer by taking his money, provided you give it to him again in exchange for his goods. He...