Article originally appeared on www.zerohedge.com.
Originally published via Armageddon Prose:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
-H.L. Mencken
That a government agency given almost a trillion dollars every year in public money could fail every audit it undergoes for nearly a decade proves the iron political law: one can get away with any amount of abuse or malfeasance if one transgresses in the name of “national security.”
Where are the conservative deficit hawks — the “how are we going to pay for that” people?
All the “defense” machine has to do, in the rare event it meets any criticism or skepticism, is splash a scary brown man with a beard and a scimitar ranting about jihad in some Pakistani cave across every corporate media outlet, and suddenly all the critics’ concerns vanish into thin air.
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