There are some things that a state just cannot do, no matter how much power it accumulates or employs. Some proposed policies are just impossible. It was Ludwig von Mises who first framed the issue with regard to socialism. A strict socialist system robs society of everything essentially economic (money prices for capital goods, the matrix of exchange, private property) and thus whatever else socialism brings about, it cannot bring about an economy. So too with myriad state programs, among which is the global War on Terror. To shore up the war, there has been no shortage of rhetoric. No … Continue reading The Impossible War