Sublime

needs. In the American view, the freedom of the individual was assumed to be premised on a certain level of ‘baseline communism’,

George Washington had warned the country against entangling alliances; Ike wanted to warn against the perils of ever-increasing defense expenditures and the garrison state.

was a dead British orator and writer who was on my mind. Edmund Burke said the problem with war is that it usually consumes the very things that you’re fighting for—justice, decency, humanity—and I couldn’t help but think of how many times I had violated our nation’s deepest values in order to protect them.

American Corporate State.

Inherent in the myth we’ve been taught is an embrace of settler colonialism and genocide.

mobilizing against Israel, and other reactionary pursuits, Ivy institutions are pursuing the fancies of a declining intellectual and business elite,

“The question is being asked all over the world: How will America use its overwhelming power?”

The conduct of the war proves that a convivial army limited to bicycle speeds is served by the opponent’s escalation of anonymous power.

Writing about Dien Bien Phu years later, Eisenhower said that he had been moved by public opinion, which was clearly opposed to American intervention, but that this factor was not decisive. Far more serious were the consequences that would have resulted from sending the American Army into Vietnam. “The presence of ever more numbers of white men in