For some people empire is quite profitable. Don't ever say that George Bush's policy in Iraq isn't working. It's working. It's just not working for you, or for me, or for the Iraqis, but it's working for certain interests. It's working in the way that empires have always worked. To say George Bush's policy isn't working is a senseless comment, it's not a politically defined comment, so discard it! Because you have to say "working for whom?" "Cui bono?" is the Latin phrase. "Who benefits?" Who gets the payoff from this? And just because many of our liberal commentators don't know what they're doing doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing. You got that? When you think those who rule you, when you think those who rule the wealth and control the markets and the labor and the resources of society, and set the wages, and define the labor market, and control the media culture; when you think they're stupid, then you're being stupid. If you know that and you don't know anything else, you know more than if you know everything else, but you don't know that. So you've gotta really know that.

Michael Parenti