Re: “Operation Adam Smith”
June 4, 2005
Jim Bovard’s report reminded me of a course taught by a colleague at another university many years ago. It was titled “Entrepreneurship,” and I anxiously read the syllabus. The course was devoted to helping students learn how to apply for a Small Business Administration loan!
The idea of a 1st Cavalry Division promoting “entrepreneurship” would be as absurd – even to Adam Smith – as it will be acceptable to moderns who see the state as nothing more than an additional “tool” available to business in its “partnership” with government. With its highly mobile tanks, the 1st Cavalry could smash privately-owned buildings as a new form of eminent domain, or be used as anti-trust technology to punish aggressive competitors. This is one instance in which the business interests who profit from having the Army as its driving force could justifiably be labeled “robber barons.”
I have a bold, new idea to offer those who would like to foster an economic resurgence for Iraqis. It’s the same advice I offer parents in the raising of children: GET OUT OF THEIR WAY, . . . and take your military forces with you!
Ms. Spellings