It is not surprising that Washington’s war-spreaders do not supply information to US citizens concerning the location of their soldiers (to use an inclusive term) involved in clandestine operations around the globe, because this might expose the lack of justification for such fandangos. Concurrent with denial of information, however, is an energetic campaign aimed at convincing Americans that everything to do with US military power is laudable and that those who voice the slightest criticism of the armed forces are unpatriotic or even traitorous. The American public are in general (if one may use that word in this context) much in favor of the military. For example, they love seeing and hearing uniformed marching musicians at public functions. But it is not the love of music that has motivated the Pentagon’s conductors to allocate over 400 million dollars a year to 130 military bands.

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