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To: cosmicforce who wrote (926)	5/5/2003 10:22:42 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) of 20773

There are those of us who would welcome a dictatorship... Or at least some baby steps in that direction: <<< ... Rosenfeld described US Army Major Ralph Peters this way: "At home, use of the military appears inevitable to him -- though not yet to an American consensus -- 'at least on our borders and in some urban environments' . . . He deplores our military's reluctance to join the war on drugs, which he attributes to a fear of failure. He would dutifully prepare for the traditionally 'military' missions, plus the new one of missile defense. But he would be ready to engage with drugs and crime, terrorism, peacekeeping, illegal immigration, disease control, resource protection, evacuation of endangered citizens . . ." Peters would later become a favorite military 'expert' embedded in network news shows - including NPR's - during the second Gulf war ... >>> From a long essay on the erosion of desire for democracy in our political culture: prorev.com Tom

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