i've been talking mostly about byzantine barbarian management, but the west has a history of barbarian management, too. biden understood this but wasn't very good at it. obama excelled at barbarian management, and even got me to support attacking isis.

barbarian management from rome rather than constantinople - which means washington rather than moscow - means a devastating, long war between the arabs and iranians sounds like a good idea and something you should get out of the way of. let them kill each other off. great news.