That happened just as the new Reagan administration handed the Pentagon
a blank check for bigger and better procurement scandals. Some years later,
congressional committees were clucking over $748 pliers and $500 cotter
pins, and then they'd walk away from the issue (they knew that congressmen
come and go, but Pentagon generals live forever). Fitzgerald's politics are
centrist, yet he considers America "the world's largest banana republic."
(page 3) "In other banana republics the military comes to power with a
sudden coup and the installation of a junta. Here it is different....
America runs on money. And the military has quietly come to vast economic
power by taking vast amounts of the federal income for itself." (page 70)
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