November 25, 2004
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"It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact."
-- George Orwell
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now put that in sentences that people of the cloth could preach to their flock to understand...
Actually, a proper cite for that quote should go to Emmanuel Goldstein, not Orwell himself.
Also, Dwight D. Eisenhower had a thing or two to say about the military-industrial complex.
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