There is a famous Iraqi idiom which states that if you think your opponents can eat you for dinner, then you’d better eat them for lunch. If your opponent is too big and powerful to eat you right-now, you’d better eat them for lunch before they eat you. Commitment problems from our opponents lead us to act, and that’s another reason why rational man can go to war.
Christopher Blattman — There is a famous Iraqi idiom which states that if you think
There is a famous Iraqi idiom which states that if you think your opponents can eat you for dinner, then you’d better eat them for lunch. If your opponent is too big and powerful to eat you right-now, you’d better…