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The Machiavellian States of America?

January 19, 2011 Leave a comment

The Machiavellian States of America?
By Daniel O’Connor
January 19, 2011

As according to The Prince, a leader must always protect his reputation and be willing to act immorally on certain occasions. “Immorally” can be defined as committing acts of brute force, aggression, deception or even large scale unjustifiable attacks. As seen during America’s invasion of Iraq in 2002, most Americans can now all acknowledge that our government was guilty of Machiavellian tactics indeed, by deceiving the public and aggressively attacking a defenseless country through brute force. Afterwards, the American public hardly criticized the government, at all.

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