Daniel Drezner on the indeterminate future universe problem in politics:
[N]o one gets credit for stopping a meltdown if it doesn’t happen… [I]t was only after 9/11 that the American public was ready to take the actions that would have prevented 9/11.
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Vote Father Time!
Father Time kept 9/11/01 from happening for roughly 14 billion years!
It is true. We Americans are much better at assigning blame for the bad than giving credit to the good.