Danger of an Arms Race (fwd)

[Brad De Long]

>> ...
>>There are a bunch of people who think that $270 billion a year on
>>defense--more than the next four powers combined, and *all* of the next
>>four powers are our *allies*--is too little.
>
>Seen from outside the U.S.: Does the left really have to succumb to the
>abuse of language implicit in the term "defense" as it used above? I note
>that John Pilger in his new "Hidden Agendas" is very careful about
>putting this word in quotes - "defense". Do you U.S. lefties all say
>defense, when you discuss that abomination; the bloated, cruel,
>fascistoid, chauvinist American war machinery? Are there not better terms?
>

Perhaps:


>>There are a bunch of people who think that $270 billion a year for the
>>Force That Cruelly and Shamefully Deprived a Large Portion of the
>>Korean People from the Glorious Benefits of the Heavenly Rule of the
>>Great >>Leader, Kim Il Sung, and the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il--more than
>>the next four powers combined--is too little.

Is that better?


:-)

Brad DeLong