[minblaster]

I think total, not relative, suffering matters. Killing 10x the population of Mesopotamia in the Iraq war isn’t assuaged because it’s low as a percentage of the population. The amount of absolute suffering has increased drastically.

[Gibbon1]

The US's ruling class four out of four catastrophic fuckups in the middle east and Central Asia doesn't bode very well for their ability to effectively rule the United States either.