"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
A Real Foreign Policy Debate
Submitted by Westernerd on Sat, 2012-01-28 04:00
"U.S. foreign policy has been shaped by what the sociologist C. Wright Mills characterized as 'military metaphysics,' a vision among the power elite that considers the state of war as the norm and peace as the aberration. This state of affairs has given rise to a military-industrial-security complex dedicated to carrying out perpetual warfare on a global scale."
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