War is the health of the state

SUBHEAD: Cynics think it better to watch the other nations of the world implode under the pressures of austerity than to let it happen here first.By David Weintraub on 9 December 2010 in The Automatic Earth - (http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2010/12/december-9-2010-war-is-health-of-state.html)Image above: Logo for the reality show "Survivor" where anything goes to be the last one standing.