Bum steer.(Correspondence)(misleading review by Laura Secor of "The Sorrows of Empire" by Chalmers Johnson criticized)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
American Prospect, The, May, 2004 by Scialabba, George
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> LAURA SECOR'S REVIEW of Chalmers Johnson's The Sorrows of Empire ["Foreign Discomfort," April] was extremely misleading. The subject of the book is the alarming growth of "militarized and secret institutions" within the executive branch that "conflict with America's democratic structure of government and distort its culture and basic values." Accordingly, most of the book is devoted to documenting the privatization of military functions, along with the profiteering and the loss of accountability and transparency that inevitably result; the ...
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