Juan Cole: Top Ten Things That Don't Make Sense About Obama's Security State

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12. We'll never know if those reforms will or won't work unless they're tried...

I'm told that there are nations in South America that have turned back their police states.

That said, collapse and anarchy seem more likely than reform in the US of A.

AND

For the most part, there was a time when the "reforms" were the common wisdom. That wealth was able to make open corruption the accepted norm does tend to strengthen your position.