Getting Under Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Skin

> Here he goes after the "interventionistas" (foreign policy theorists with no "skin in the game,") who have repeatedly urged us to intervene in foreign countries -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria -- whose governments did not meet the interventionistas abstract standards for political acceptability.

That's being extremely generous in taking the interventionistas at their word, that they are not driven by ulterior motives. Or acting as useful idiots for others with ulterior motives.