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Feral Finster's avatar

Think tanks are like management consultants, in that their job is to provide the recipient with "independent" confirmation of the recipient's intended course of action, while using the current buzzwords and a veneer of intellectual certainty.

"Bain said that management should pay themselves a fat bonus as a reward for rightsizing employee headcount!"

"The Atlantic Council report said that the next war of aggression is necessary to shore up Muh American Credibility!"

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Andrew Thomas's avatar

Thank you for your emphasis on so-called ‘think tanks’. The great US anti-war activist Ray McGovern coined the acronym MICIMATT, standing for Military Industrial Congressional Intelligence Media Academia Think Tank complex, an update of Ike’s MIC, that reflects the cancerous growth of what a sitting president recognized over 63 years ago as a present danger then into what it has become now. And now it is global. Iyiyiyiyi. Many Lucys will have lots of ‘splainin to do when their vaporized bodies and/or souls reach their respective Valhallas. Unless, as you say, an urgently needed massive anti war movement throws the whole MICIMATT out of power. Thanks again.

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