"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
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery … and Fighting Back is “Aggression”
"The US Department of Defense recently promulgated a new 'defense' guidance document: 'Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense.' I use scare quotes because it just doesn’t seem quite right to use 'defense' to describe a document that — like its predecessors — envisions something like an American Thousand-Year Reich."
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