NancyLebovitz comments on What Intelligence Tests Miss: The psychology of rational thought - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 11 July 2010 11:01PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 13 July 2010 11:51:21AM 1 point [-]

Could it have been the convergence of three factors: money to be made from a war, Iraq weakened by sanctions, and the shock of 9/11?

Comment author: Kevin 13 July 2010 07:04:55PM 1 point [-]

By talking about the PNAC, I mean both that the war was caused by influential member individuals of the PNAC, as well as because of the idealistic cause behind the PNAC -- continued American hegemony. The Iraq War was a failed attempt at continuing American hegemony into the 21st century.