First proposed by
George Carlin following the initiation of the Persian Gulf War in 1991; the bigger dick foreign policy theory theorizes the justification of
war (or conflict in general) being based solely on the size of the aggressor's penis in comparison to the penis size of the defender. Generally, the aggressor possesses a smaller penis in comparison to the defender, and so feels compelled to attack/invade/conquer the defender in order to feel better and
prove to others that he is the
superior of the
two, despite his smaller penis size.
When used to explain
war justification, it also explains the visual similarity between rockets, bombs, and bullets, and features they share with phallic imagery, as "the need to project the penis into other peoples' affairs", and is thought to be the origin of the phrase "fucking with people".
The bigger dick foreign policy theory is usually born out of, and is very often related to, dick fear.
"You
don't have to be a historian or a political scientist to see bigger dick foreign policy theory at
work. It sounds like this: 'What, they have bigger
dicks?! Bomb them!'"
