War is still ‘a racket’. Is the US the biggest hoodlum in the world?

[buddhallah_the_christ]

The United States of America is in a state of perpetual war, which requires perpetual war spending. The reason for this is simple: money and power.

To be more specific, tax-payer money allocated by politicians to defense contractors who produce wildly expensive and unnecessary equipment, and power of controlling certain resources and markets for profit-driven corporations and industries. This is allowed to happen because the citizens, the tax-payers, do not know and do not care about money spent on “defense.” The American military is the sole remaining institution of public funding and common interest that has a near unanimous bipartisan approval rating and simultaneous near lack of oversight, and lack of interest by voters.

“The vast majority of Americans outside the military can be triply cynical in their attitude toward it. Triply? One: “honoring” the troops but not thinking about them. Two: “caring” about defense spending but really viewing it as a bipartisan stimulus program. Three: supporting a “strong” defense but assuming that the United States is so much stronger than any rival that it’s pointless to worry whether strategy, weaponry, and leadership are right.”

Many people are familiar with President Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address in which he warns against the so-called “military-industrial complex.” The fundamental problem he was talking about is the corrupting influence on government by private enterprise, especially powerful industries like arms manufacturers and oil. One common misconception may be that this collusion between government and industry was a relatively new thing that grew after World War Two, when in fact it has been a serious problem at least since America got involved in the imperialism game in the Spanish-American War in 1898.

War is still a racket Foreign Policy

After reading this article, I was convinced (once again) that oil and weapon corporations use its influence within the government to become even richer and more powerful. Don't you think that such actions are poorly aligned with the concepts of democracy and freedom?

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

No.

 

[Moonglow]

Not to mention the Christianity thingy....

 

[buddhallah_the_christ]

No.

why?

 

[Mr. H.]

The world is in a perpetual state of chaos. The American "war machine" attempts to remediate the chaos, protect the innocents in such zones of war, then go back home and have a smoke.

Well, that used to be the scenario until Obama showed up...

 

[buddhallah_the_christ]

The world is in a perpetual state of chaos. The American "war machine" attempts to remediate the chaos, protect the innocents in such zones of war, then go back home and have a smoke.

Well, that used to be the scenario until Obama showed up...

Two hundred thousand innocent people were killed because of bombings in Iraq. Something tells me that someone smoked and then decided to bomb Iraq.