Patriotism and History

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 2 18:30:33 PDT 2001


Carl Remick wrote:


>Please note that I said national security, not imperial security.
>The number one stategic aim of any sovereign state's armed forces is
>defense of the, er, homeland. The fact that we have now created a
>*new* cabinent-level post to do the job that the secretary of
>defense was already supposed to be doing is ludicrous.

We hadn't had an attack on the homeland in 60 years - on the northern mainland since like forever. Isn't that a pretty long string?

Doug



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