[Peace-discuss] The inimitable Bob Blum

[Morton K. Brussel]

 From his full commentary at

  http://members.aol.com/bblum6/aer52.htm

…We have to keep this in mind -- America, like Israel, cherishes its  
enemies. Without enemies, the United States appears to be a nation  
without moral purpose and direction. The various managers of the  
National Security State need enemies to protect their jobs, to  
justify their swollen budgets, to aggrandize their work, to give  
themselves a mission, to send truckloads of taxpayer money to the  
corporations for whom the managers will go to work after leaving  
government service. And they understand the need for enemies only too  
well, even painfully. …
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