Daily Inspiration Quote by John Pilger

Pilger’s line lands like a flashing hazard sign, and that’s the point: he isn’t diagnosing a policy dispute, he’s framing an emergency. “Out of control” is deliberately blunt, almost anti-bureaucratic language, meant to strip away the usual Washington varnish of “missteps” and “unintended consequences.” It implies a state apparatus slipping its leash - not merely making bad choices, but moving with a momentum that democratic oversight can’t restrain.

The more interesting charge is “truly dangerous people.” Pilger chooses personnel over abstractions. He’s not arguing that “America” is dangerous or that history forced anyone’s hand; he’s insisting that decisions originate with identifiable actors who can be named, tracked, and held responsible. That phrase also smuggles in a moral hierarchy: these aren’t just hardliners or ideologues; they’re beyond the normal spectrum of acceptable governance. It’s a journalist’s way of saying: stop treating this as ordinary politics.

Context matters. Pilger is a longtime critic of U.S. power, and this reads as post-9/11 anxiety crystallized into accusation: the war on terror, the Iraq invasion, the normalization of preemption, secrecy, and legal gray zones. His intent is mobilizing, not therapeutic. The subtext is a warning about what happens when fear becomes a governing technology and accountability becomes optional: the administration’s actions aren’t isolated errors, they’re a pattern - and the pattern is the danger.