"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear --
kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the
cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some
terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was
going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by
furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect,
these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to
have been quite real."
- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957









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