A young man reflects on his time in the U.S. Navy, what he saw there, and how his outlook on the world has changed. Very much worth reading.
Conservatives laugh at the Left’s naive fidelity to government propaganda on the domestic front, but generally accept without much question the much more transparent propaganda that the very same government peddles when it comes to foreign policy. The author takes aim at the mythology and mysticism by which these so-called conservatives have come to treat one class of government employees with a virtually idolatrous reverence.