War without end- Warlords and their new Status

There is greater wisdom and substance, regarding the present world-situation, in this ONE paragraph from C. W. Mills than in the collective works of all journalist morons writing in America's papers (even though my saying this will cause GT's pants to light on fire). Read it carefully, read it twice, read it thrice, and forget about the moralizing morons that hide their barbarism behind sanitized slogans...

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"As the military men have become more powerful during the wars and during the war-like interludes between (in all wars without end like the current 'war on terror', there are war-like interludes), they too have joined the new national prestige (status) scheme. They, as well as policemen, derive such importance as they have from the simple fact that violence is the final support of power and the final resort of those who would contest it. Only when revolution or crime threaten to disturb domestic order (or the status quo) does the police captain, and only when diplomacy and war threaten international order, do the generals and admirals, come to be recognized for what at all times they are: indispensible elements of the "order" (i.e. system) of power that prevails within and between the nation states of the world."

(C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite, 1956:85)