Perhaps the most ghastly aspect of wartime is how, in the name of fighting tyranny abroad, the US takes such strides in imposing it at home, thereby absorbing into our own political system the very thing we are supposedly combating. This happened in the Cold War. And today, one wonders what institutions from radical Islam the US will absorb in the course of its war on terror? Its anti-intellectualism? Its failure to embrace liberalism and progress? Its suspicion of outsiders? Its fanaticism? The inability of its legal institutions to distinguish between vice and crime? [Full Article]
The Wanna-Be State
