Reply #15: I just ordered a copy from Amazon on your recommendation....

[mike_c]

Thanks. I will read it. If Clark advocates dismantling the MIC and cutting America's committment to a military foreign policy then I'll applaud that position. My response to the OP has to do with our political obsession with "national security" in a world in which the U.S.'s own policies creates most of its national security threats. In answer to your question, I agree-- few politicians have the courage to speak truthfully about American imperialism, but that doesn't mean that we should reward their cowardice. My fear is that a general-- who HAS spent his career supporting that empire, whether he believes in it or not-- is a poor choice of revolutionary, and I think we need a genuine revolutionary to set America on a very different course. I'll read Clark's book and see what he has to say about it. I hope you'll read Johnson's if you haven't already.