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Why Guns Are Better Than Butter

Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying ... found this 11/21/2008 on forbes.com

"War is the health of the state," wrote Randolph Bourne, horrified by World War I and its excesses. And that phrase has been used by libertarians and opponents of state power ever since, as a reason why war is a bad idea. Certainly the experience of World War I--and, in America, the dramatic ...