Police State USA
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt393.html
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Promoting democracy by the sword
WendyMcElroy.Com
by Wendy McElroy
11/18/09
A key concept behind the shift from civilized war to all-out version was the idea that it was the duty of some nations — mostly the United States — to police the world in order to impose certain social conditions, like democracy. (The irony of imposing democracy through munitions seems to miss most people.) This concept means that all local wars have the potential to become global convulsions; the selection of which local war should go global seems to be whichever one serves the self-interest of politicians in power. The new concept of war includes its role as a vehicle of social reform so that soldiers arrive with death in one hand and a CARE package in the other, all the while insisting they are there to protect women’s rights, promote democracy or provide some other social good...
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.2868
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/engelhardt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alfred+McCoy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wendy+McElroy
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Promoting democracy by the sword
WendyMcElroy.Com
by Wendy McElroy
11/18/09
A key concept behind the shift from civilized war to all-out version was the idea that it was the duty of some nations — mostly the United States — to police the world in order to impose certain social conditions, like democracy. (The irony of imposing democracy through munitions seems to miss most people.) This concept means that all local wars have the potential to become global convulsions; the selection of which local war should go global seems to be whichever one serves the self-interest of politicians in power. The new concept of war includes its role as a vehicle of social reform so that soldiers arrive with death in one hand and a CARE package in the other, all the while insisting they are there to protect women’s rights, promote democracy or provide some other social good...
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.2868
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/engelhardt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alfred+McCoy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wendy+McElroy
rudkla - 19. Nov, 06:12
