American Consequences - July 2020

By Todd G. Buchholz  CLICK HERE TO READ THE WEB VERSION THEDEBT BOMB After two harrowing World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam, presidents have also called on Americans to fight metaphoric wars on poverty, crime, drugs, and terrorism... not to mention actual clashes in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and more recently in Lafayette Square across the street from the White House. Politicians now deem the struggle to defeat COVID-19 a war, and, indeed, the effort has required mobilization, requisition, and MASH units more fitting for Korea’s 38th parallel in the 1950s than the east side of Manhattan. AFTERTHE COVIDWAR, The word “war” must be worn-out by now.

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