Naked Aggression: How Americans Were Seduced by War-Paul Craig Roberts

[Jade Fox]

Had to post this one too-its so good.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts89.html

Americans have been betrayed. Sooner or later Americans will realize
that they have been led to defeat in a pointless war by political leaders
who they inattentively trusted. They have been misinformed by a
sycophantic corporate media too mindful of advertising revenues to
risk reporting truths branded unpatriotic by the propagandistic slogan,
"you are with us or against us."

What happens when Americans
wake up to their betrayal? It is too
late to be rescued from catastrophe
in Iraq, but perhaps if Americans
can understand how such a grand
mistake was made they can avoid
repeating it. In a forthcoming book
from Oxford University Press, The
New American Militarism,
Andrew J. Bacevich writes that we
can avoid future disasters by
understanding how our doctrines
went wrong and by returning to the
precepts laid down by our
Founding Fathers, men of infinitely
more wisdom than those currently holding reins of power.

Bacevich, West Point graduate, Vietnam veteran, and soldier for 23
years, is a true conservative. He is an expert on US military strategy
and a professor at Boston University. He describes how civilian
strategists – especially Albert Wohlstetter and Andrew Marshall – not
military leaders, transformed a strategy of deterrence that regarded
war as a last resort into a strategy of naked aggression. The resulting
"marriage of a militaristic cast of mind with utopian ends" has
"committed the United States to waging an open-ended war on a
global scale."

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If Americans persist in these misconceptions, America will "share the
fate of all those who in ages past have looked to war and military
power to fulfill their destiny. We will rob future generations of their
rightful inheritance. We will wreak havoc abroad. We will endan
Americans have been betrayed. Sooner or later Americans will realize
that they have been led to defeat in a pointless war by political leaders
who they inattentively trusted. They have been misinformed by a
sycophantic corporate media too mindful of advertising revenues to
risk reporting truths branded unpatriotic by the propagandistic slogan,
"you are with us or against us."