March 9, 2001
'The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex'
In the mid-1960's, government-sponsored researchers met monthly in a secret underground shelter near Hudson, N.Y. After two and a half years, they issued a startling report. War was essential to the economic and political well-being of democratic nations, they argued. Peace, they said, was destabilizing and dangerous.
Except they didn't, they didn't, and it never happened.
It's not surprising that many found what turned out to be a journalist's hoax plausible or at least
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