AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR THE STATE
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policy — and Big Banks share in the reward. But all
of this war requires the U.S. government maintain
support from the public — and what better way to
win them over than appeal to fear of the Other?
“We spread disproportionate terror and confusion
in the public mind, arbitrarily linking the unrelated
problems of terrorism and Iraq. The result, and
perhaps the motive, is to justify a vast misallocation of shrinking public wealth to the military
and to weaken the safeguards that protect American
citizens from the heavy hand of government.
September 11 did not do as much damage to the
fabric of American society as we seem determined
to [do] to ourselves […]
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When John Brady Kiesling, a career diplomat, tendered his letter of resignation to Secretary of State
Colin Powell, he piercingly criticized the warped
factors driving both American domestic and foreign
policy surrounding the needless war in Iraq — with
barbs unfortunately equally applicable today:
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