A comment I posted at The Daily Bell, recently:

Dear war-mongers:

I’ve seen the light. I was so dumb, bigoted, anti-American, anti-Semitic, ungrateful, and downright all-round stupid (put it down to being from an inferior culture) that I really, really thought that ratcheting up tensions with over one billion Muslims was a bad idea. Might lead to real war. How idiotic of me.

(Slap on forehead).

Now I see. Real war is JUST what we need.

All this back and forth is simply a waste of time. Get a move on it, folks. Quit talking. Get to bombing.

Lookit. I’ve done the math.

We have so many unemployed people – at least 10% of the population, 15-20% if you believe John Williams at Shadowstats.

Imagine how much better the job market would be if we could bundle a fifth of the population off to Kabul or Samarkhand or Whogivesaflyingheckistan? Less supply, more demand – didn’t Keynes say something about demand?

And yeah, we’re all Keynesians now, because, of course, Keynesians were the guys who called this way, way, way back in 2002…weren’t they?

(Another slap on forehead)

Comes right back to me, now. I remember one of them – guy by the name of Crockman. er…Krugman..telling us we needed to buy, buy, buy…houses, I think it was. (but no reason why we can’t just cross out houses on the loan form and put in daisy-cutters, instead)

So let’s pay attention to Keynesians when they speak.

And lo, they’ve come down from Mount New York Times and spoken:

Let there be demand.

What’s better for demand than war?
Especially war with a billion plus Muslims.

And remember, we have all that budget-surplus floating around.

And our creditors love us too. Companies are picking up from China and moving here. Woo-hoo. Look at all the factories going up in Florida.

We can afford it. We’re worth it…
Actually, we don’t spend near enough on defense. 30% of the budget, you say? 40%? More?

Wa–aay too little. Make it 80%. No, make it 100%.

That’s it. 100% of what we have should go to preemptive…er..defense.

That’s how they do it in North Korea – and you know, they tell me it’s not such a bad place….