The Higgs Principle

No ... not the Higgs boson, the Higgs geopolitical principle:

As a general rule for understanding public policies, I insist that there are no persistent "failed" policies. Policies that do not achieve their desired outcomes for the actual powers-that-be are quickly changed. If you want to know why the U.S. policies have been what they have been for the past sixty years, you need only comply with that invaluable rule of inquiry in politics: follow the money.

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If U.S. policy in Afghanistan were truly a failure -- a failure, that is, to the actual powers-that-be -- it would have been changed in five years at the outside, and probably sooner. The fact that it has not changed, certainly not in terms of essentials, means that the powers-that-be are achieving precisely what they want. In addition to the benefits identified by Higgs, there is one additional over-arching goal that the damnable powers-that-be share, and believe in to the core of their putrid, twisted little hearts: that the United States is entitled to and must have geopolitical dominance.

You can read the rest @
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2017/09/restating-obvious-briefly.html

This essay about the Higgs principle is by Arthur Silber, one of our greatest but least appreciated prophets. If you have the time, I strongly suggest that you read and digest as many of his essays as you can.