WHILE most Americans are aware of the controversy over the role of the private security company Blackwater in Iraq, probably few understand that armed contractors in Iraq are just the tip of an iceberg. Across the globe, in everything from diplomacy to development to intelligence, contractors are a major American presence, and only a small fraction of them carry weapons. American foreign policy, to a great extent, has been privatized...
...Some are tempted to turn back the clock and reassert traditional government authority, denouncing private-sector greed and the “coalition of the billing.” But that would be a terrible mistake, for outsourcing is in part a rational response to the new possibilities of the information age...
...and with that statement, The New York Pravda satisfies its Carlyle Group Board members.
Some, indeed. Count me in on that.
If America was intended to be the Corporate States of America, one thinks it would have been mentioned in the Constitution somewhere.
One more thing in the text:
...It has become conventional wisdom to blame the Bush administration for the “hollowing out” of government, but this misses the mark. While contract spending has more than doubled since 2001, serious federal efforts to outsource began under President Bill Clinton...
Which is why the main$tream follows every tic of the Clinton campaign, while pretty much ignoring everyone else. Okay, the marketeers say Obama also sells to a segment of the population, so give him a token spot. And know you know why ex-Clinton Commerce Secretary and Carlyle Group Board member William Kennard's New York Pravda makes such breathtakingly wrong Corporatist statements about how to run things.
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Final Fantasy VII wasn't so juvenile and hyperbolic after all.
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