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The expression “self-licking ice-cream cone” was first used in 1992 to describe a hidebound bureaucracy at NASA. Yet as an image, it’s even more apt for America’s military-industrial complex, an institution far vaster than the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and thoroughly dedicated to working for its own perpetuation and little else. Thinking about that led […]
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