Source: Antiwar.com
by James Carden
“[B]y the end of 1960s it had become clear that the national security state aggregated to itself the right to oppose — and if necessary thwart through a variety of means — the foreign policy initiatives of a duly-elected President. To [Hannah] Arendt, the turning point was the assassination of President Kennedy. … ‘it was quite clear that now, really for the first time in a very long time in American history, a direct crime had interfered with the political process. And this somehow changed the political process.’ … every future administration has understood the unspoken prerogative of accommodating itself to the agenda of the permanent state. By the end of the 1960s the permanent state emerged as the supreme arbiter of policy — who would dare contradict it?” (08/20/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/james-carden/2025/08/19/sixty-three-years-nothing-has-changed/