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Was the Cold War Constitutional?

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For 45 years, the United States was engaged in a Cold War against the Soviet Union and communism. In the 1960s, the war brought the country to the edge of nuclear war. It brought about the deaths of more than 100,000 American soldiers in Korea and Vietnam. It brought ever-increasing budgets, power, and influence for the military, the military-industrial complex, the CIA, and the NSA. The Cold War held America in its grip until it suddenly and unexpectedly came to an end in 1989. Through it all, most everybody just accepted it. At the end of World War II, Americans were too shell-shocked from all the death and destruction from the war to question or challenge anything U.S. officials were saying about the new threat they were supposedly now facing — from their wartime partner and ally, the Soviet Union and the ideology it represented, communism. Americans were made to believe that the Russians and Reds were coming to get ...

On That Day Began Lies

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Like many other mainstream political commentators, Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum is outraged and indignant over Donald Trump’s public praise and open embrace of foreign dictators who are allied or friendly with the U.S. government. In an op-ed in the Post’s Sunday edition entitled “How Trump Makes Dictators Stronger,” Applebaum argues that Trump’s words and actions constitute a “paradigm shift” for the United States because they are now, she asserts, going to solidify pro-U.S. dictators, justify their brutality, and reinforce their power. That’s sheer nonsense. It’s not Trump’s words or actions that are solidifying and reinforcing the brutal, tyrannical rule of these regimes. It is U.S. foreign aid — money and weaponry — that does that. Trump's words and actions simply confirm the truth. As I pointed out in last week’s article entitled “The National-Security State’s Tradition of Embracing Dictators,” the U.S. government has been providing cash and weaponry to dictatorial regimes ever since the federal government was converted ...

The National-Security State’s Tradition of Embracing Dictators

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The New York Times editorial board is outraged and indignant that President Trump has invited Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to the United States to meet with Trump. In an editorial entitled “Donald Trump Embraces Another Despot,” the Times points to Duterte’s dictatorial practices, including his alleged state-sponsored murders of drug-law violators. The editorial also points to the “friendly reception” that Trump extended to President Abdel Fattah el Sisi, the brutal military dictator of Egypt, and to Trump’s praise for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who recently convinced Turkey’s parliament to expand his dictatorial powers. Why is the Times so indignant and outraged over these actions? Because, the paper says, Trump’s actions go against America’s long time role as “a beacon of democracy and a global advocate of human rights and the rule of law.” Is that funny or what? It’s funny in two ways: One, after the U.S. government was converted from a limited-government republic to a national-security state after World ...