"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 Discussion That Isn't Happening
Submitted by Jeremy H. on Wed, 2007-09-26 16:00
""These programs are legacies of the Cold War. None of them has any real connection to Iraq , Afghanistan , or the global war on terror. And yet the Navy and Air Force keep churning them out as if the Soviet Union were still a menace?or, under updated rationales, as if China were a global military power right now." But everyone sure talks a lot about pork!"
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