Few Americans today understand how the United States came to be owned by a London-backed neoconservative/right-wing alliance that grew out of the institutional turmoil of the post-Vietnam era. Even fewer understand how its internal mission to maintain the remnants of the old British Empire gradually overcame American democracy and replaced it with a “national security” bureaucracy of its own design....Weekend reading, if you like intrigue.
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The Grand Illusion of Imperial Power
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
Talk about pure evil. What drives these people?
ReplyDeleteThis is why the founding fathers warned about getting involved in entangling alliances and foreign adventures. They knew their history well. Recurrent war.
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