Cockburn on "crackpot realism"

[Gordon Fitch]

Yoshie Furuhashi:
> ...
> Bombing, a modest insertion of Special Forces, and an uprising of
> U.S.-backed oppositions do not require an extensive and intensive
> mobilization of U.S. citizens.  I'm afraid that Katrina vanden
> Heuvel, Joel Rogers, and the like haven't pondered this fact.  Or
> perhaps they have, and they are calling for two, three, many
> Afghanistans.

"War is the health of the State."

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