Hedges

Make of it what you will.

The root question in all of this is--exactly what is the nature of "national security?"

Is national security a question of protecting the individual rights of citizens, or the rights of corporations hell-bent on plundering the world's resources--ours and others'--in the name of unfettered capitalism?

Something else?  A process to protect a myth?  The residue of exceptionalism?

Is it to assuage terror, under the ever-broadening definition of that word, or to hold power so tightly that it restrains freedom?

Fascinating...

Two truths regarding empire--it has its limitations, and it always crumbles.


TS