> Since America's interests are not furthered by covert propaganda, we should abandon it, since the only interest such propaganda could serve would be fifth-col

> Since America's interests are not furthered by covert propaganda, we should abandon it, since the only interest such propaganda could serve would be fifth-columning the country This conclusion should be self-evident for any democratic society, so any reasonable value of free and democratic. I have various bones to pick with the rest of the post, chiefly viewing all of politics as being about abstract notion of freedom instead of realpolitik