geopolitical hypocrisy

Today's top BBC story: Iran denies supplying the bombs that killed British soldiers. This is a self-defeating news story. If Iran was evil to supply bombs that killed eight people, then what does that say about Britain and America, supplying bombs that killed many thousands? If we start counting body bags, then Britain and America become the undisputed villains.

If we want our enemies to look bad, we have to find some rational basis for the war, in order to demonstrate that our choices were better than their choices. All such choices come down to one question: who has a right to control the land (and hence create the laws that others must live by)?

Land rent is the only fair system for allocating land, because it is based on market forces and compensating our neighbors for the inconvenience we may cause by depriving them of land. Without land rent, land ownership is at best arbitrary, at worst a constant source of bloodshed. Without land rent, war is inevitable and endless.

Land rent - the solution to geopolitical problems.