To debauch a people, debase their currency. - Curtis Yarvin

If the US was a unified, effective actor which intended to conquer and civilize Iraq and Afghanistan, it would abolish the native puppet governments of Maliki and Karzai, place all lawless areas under martial law, create military formations with US officers and native troops, create civilian governments with US executives and native employees, and in general do what the British did in India, Egypt, Burma, etc., etc.

[T]axation is not theft. Taxation is rent.

The secret of power is that power and responsibility are the same thing.