Protecting naughty children from infection

Chomsky:
"Throughout policy planners have faced the "agonising problem" of how to reconcile a formal commitment to democracy and freedom with the overriding fact that "the United States may often need to do terrible things to get what it has always wanted," Alan Tonelson observes. What the US wanted was "economic policies that would enable American business to operate as freely as possible and often as monopolistically as possible," with the aim of creating "an integrated, United States-dominated capitalistic world economy."

Hegemony or survival: p.69.