National security: the ghost story
By James Carroll | Monday, February 25, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…When…consensus assumes…that World War II was ‘good,’ or that the United States arms build-up ‘won’ the Cold War, it protects the militarized economy, the status of the military-industrial elite, the iron lock of incumbents on office. Any reinterpretation of this salvation history, it is feared, would undermine the economy, disempower the elite, unsettle politics – and deprive the citizenry of meaning in an otherwise meaningless world. Voters may want change, but not change at this level. Yet ‘national security’ is bogus – part ghost story with which the nation scares itself at bedtime, part nightly prayer with which it then goes to sleep….”…BS
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/02/25/the_ghost_story?mode=PF
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The article claims that ‘National Security’ is bogus. This statement can be taken in many ways ie: ‘there is no such thing’ or ‘it is ineffective’, or ‘it is effective, but not in the way it should be.’
Posted on 26-Feb-08 at 3:33 am | PermalinkYou might as well say that America is bogus. It doesn’t mean much of anything.