“Please Bomb Us” Again
August 10, 2005
And if slaughtering tens of thousands in the name of “democracy” isn’t enough to bolster public support for more war – which was probably the purpose of the NPR and Boot pieces – the political establishment will have to fall back on the rationale guaranteed to send most Americans into a state of enraptured insistence for more tyranny: “we’re doing it for the children!”
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
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