Has the USA Become a Low Grade Paranoid State?

America Has Turned a World Without Serious Enemies into the Most Threatening Place in the Universe

The U.S. is in less danger from external enemies than at any moment in the last century. So our security state demands we invent some.

April 14, 2013  |  

 

TomDispatch.com here.
The communist enemy, with the “ world’s fourth largest military,” has been  trundling missiles around and threatening the United States with nuclear obliteration.   Guam, Hawaii, Washington: all, it claims, are targetable.  The coverage in the media has been hair-raising.  The U.S. is  rushing an untested missile defense system to Guam, deploying missile-interceptor ships off the South Korean coast,  sending “nuclear capable” B-2 Stealth bombers thousands of miles on mock bombing runs,  pressuring China, and conducting large-scale  war games with its South Korean ally.