sound familiar?

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

"In crackpot realism," C. Wright Mills wrote, " a high-flying moral
rhetoric is joined with an opportunist crawling among a great scatter
of unfocused fears and demands. .. The expectation of war solves many
problems of the crackpot realists; ... instead of the unknown fear,
the anxiety without end, some men of the higher circles prefer the
simplification of known catastrophe....They know of no solutions to
the paradoxes of the Middle East and Europe, the Far East and Africa
except the landing of Marines. ... they prefer the bright, clear
problems of war-as they used to be. For they still believe that
'winning' means something, although they never tell us what..."
(from THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR III, quoted by Alexander Cockburn in the NATION).
--
Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to
be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But
in economics, it's the exact opposite." --- Paul Dirac [edited]