“How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.”

—  Herbert Schiller

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Two, Visions Of Global Electronic Mastery, p. 70

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