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> ... As a scrupulous scholar, he recognized that the historical record is radically inconsistent with this “transcendent purpose.” But he insisted that we should not be misled by this discrepancy. We should not “confound the abuse of reality with reality itself.” Reality is the unachieved “national purpose” revealed by “the evidence of history as our minds reflect it.” What actually happened is merely the “abuse of reality.”
#AbuseOfReality #RealityBasedCommunity #MorgenthauForRumsfeld or another Bush Jr. guy mentioned in TomDispatch articles ...