"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Pentagon Rivals Hollywood at Telling War Stories
"Movie-making and war-making would now be intertwined. The location of this production would be Iraq . The director would be the Pentagon. The production staff would be situated at that quarter-million-dollar set for war briefings at centcom headquarters in Doha , Qatar , and Americans would see our troops advance in triumph just the way they were supposed to, just the way they had on-screen all those long, glorious years ago."
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