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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (85192)3/23/2003 3:09:36 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<the costs of infrastructure>

What a wonderful euphemism. I'll have to add it to my collection, along with "defensive preventive war" and "unlawful combatants" and "nation building".

I'll sign on for externalizing (= paid by my taxes) the costs of hospitals and schools and roads. I might even be prepared to externalize the costs of that kind of infrastructure, in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, if that's what it takes to win the WarOnTerrorism.

But the "infrastructure" of Empire, the bones and muscle of conquest and domination overseas, this I won't sign on for. Regime Change and Nation Building are UnAmerican; Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers would be ashamed of what we have become, and so am I.
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