Krugman
Pauk Krugman, Things to Come
So now the administration knows that it can make unsubstantiated claims, without paying a price when those claims prove false, and that saber rattling gains it votes and silences opposition. Maybe it will honorably refuse to act on this dangerous knowledge. But I can't help worrying that in domestic politics, as in foreign policy, this war will turn out to have been the shape of things to come.We are not yet doomed, and the world will be in sore need of American antiterrorist experts after this war.
Why?
The same reasons that the drug trade continues unfettered: oince the visible high profle heads fall, allm the lieutenants and small lords become free agents,. answering to no one but their own pockets, and with a huge amount of expenses: security, armamnent, debts etc. These agents must continue in business - and without a central authority, they will all become possible Ts.
Not possible now.