All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.
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