[Mr. Jeeves]

The mere fact that he and his economic advisors thought it made perfect sense to keep raising taxes during the 1930s suggests that their primary motive wasn’t to lift the country out of its economic morass, but to take advantage of the situation to inflate the power of the federal government.

Now if one looks carefully at the parallels between that statement and how the current Administration and both major parties have run the "War on Terror" one will realize that the goal never changes, only the pretext.

[iopscusa]

Yep the WOT was in my mind when posting, it is the nature of Government to seek power and it will fearlessly use fear to do so.
It may be time to try to Kill the Beast!