“To fight against a war or, better yet, an entire “war machine,” we had to become warriors ourselves. This is the cunning symmetry of war: Enemies tend to come to resemble one another. And this was perhaps especially so in a culture that appallingly – to us – applied the war meme to just about anything, as in the “War on Poverty.”

“To fight against a war or, better yet, an entire “war machine,” we had to become warriors ourselves. This is the cunning symmetry of war: Enemies tend to come to resemble one another. And this was perhaps especially so in a culture that appallingly – to us – applied the war meme to just about anything, as in the “War on Poverty.”

— Barbara Ehrenreich