"building a Milo Minderbinder army"

[pynchonoid]

[...]The conspiracy theories and corruption claims
make for great headlines, but they miss the point.
There’s little evidence of chicanery in the bidding
process for Iraq contracts, and no serious person
believes that the United States launched a war for
Halliburton. The worrisome thing isn’t what
Halliburton and other big contractors are supposedly
doing behind the scenes. It’s what they’re doing in
plain sight. National defense, the blood-and-iron
burden of government, is increasingly becoming a
province of the private sector. Our leaders seem
intent on building a Milo Minderbinder army. [...]

<http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?talk/040112ta_talk_surowiecki>

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