Reply #8: Mostly In Advisory Roles, Sir [View All]

[The Magistrate]

In other words, without any power save that of their patron. Those who hold office, such as Rumsfeld, can hardly be accused of deep thought.

What so many hyperventilate over as P.N.A.C. is simply garden variety imperial expansion, which occurs in all imperiums, and for which the justifications are taken off the shelf as needed. All governments expand, to the limit of their capability to do so: this is as old the Chinese saw, hoary by the early Han, that "There is but one sun in the sky: there can be but one ruler of men."