Sam’s Reviews > Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire > Status Update

Just re-reading since the damn orange wants to take Panama and my brain went immediately here.

"That tension—between the ideal of the United States as a leading champion of democracy on the one hand and a leading destroyer of democracy on the other—remains the often unacknowledged fault line running through American politics today."