Aside from the fact that he is dead, Milton Friedman's moribund idealogy always needed life support.
Pinochet in Chile. Two generals car-bombed, third accepts CIA job. "We always fail", said CIA director William Colby to CIA super-hero Ralph McGehee. Propping up Friedman's dead idealogy by military and covert intervention has always failed. John Birch Society and Friedman's cult pseudo-scientific idealogy always had two things in common. While arguing less is more in terms of laissez faire, they really argued more is better i.e. more corporate welfare for the hegemonic military-industrial state. JBS would belie itself by running a Red Cocaine story by an announced spook, and shaft its Lansdale expose' with an article by Andy Messing, Lansdale disciple and Friendman evangelist via covert action. Why wouldn't the argument used against the Soviet system apply, that if Friendman's pseudo-economics idealogy needed so much military and covert intervention, how could it be as good as advertised? Worse, if it "always fails", per Colby, despite US hegemonic military and covert intervention--Friedman on life support from day one?
