03-11-2008, 06:48 AM
Charles Drago Wrote:The benefits accrued to those elements of the military-industrial complex -- and the politicians who serviced them -- for whom the presence of a hemispheric bogeyman underscored their usefulness, generated economic profit, and preserved the Cold War fictive construct.
The staged attempts at invasion and assassination kept the low level muscle in line insofar as they catered to their appetites for vengeance and a return to power in a "liberated" Cuba.
Oh, yes, the bogeyman--the one indispensable entity. That does make sense. The same reason the alleged Bin Laden person is more useful allegedly shipping videos to the propagandameisters than he would be in custody.