One of the best descriptions I’ve heard for the functioning of governments such as this Bush-and-Co. version (which I often refer to as "money launderers"), is given here by Naomi Klein in a conversation with John Cusack:
So the scandal isn’t Blackwater or Halliburton or Exxon; it’s the vision of politics we have been living with since Reagan that holds that the central role of government is to be the executive chef for this corporate feeding frenzy. In the eighties and nineties, that meant chopping of major limbs of the state — water, electricity, the airwaves — and feeding them to corporations.
My question is this: how does the capacity for corporate greed keep coming as a surprise? The politicians who designed this war are all supposed to be adherents to a philosophy that holds that there is nothing more powerful in the world than greed — that it should be the governing force in as many human interactions as possible. Isn’t that what Milton Friedman wanted? Iraq’s occupation was organized by the Bush Administration to unleash that instinct with absolutely no restraint.
