While I agree with his parallels about all the other imperialist military adventurers, I think that he has been taken in by the agencies of indoctrination. He writes:
...it is the job of a democracy to distinguish those interests and make sure that when it goes to war it goes to war to defend its people and not to fatten its elite. And that means imbuing its military with a love and dedication to democratic process....Such "democracy" that we have heretofore enjoyed is only a shadow version of a true participatory, inclusive democracy that, for me, is the only genuine one. Capitalist elites have through their educational and media institutions of indoctrination made sure that we grow up thinking that this version is real democracy. With their elaborate legal and electoral institutions they have created a facade of "democracy" that is much like those constructed facades of wild west towns we find in Hollywood Westerns.
Should the US ruling capitalist class in the course of their compulsive pursuit of profits find that maintaining this facade is just too much trouble or too costly, they will not hesitate to turn to some form of a police state.
