- The President is abusing our great military by sending them on a fool's errand for cronies.
- The abuse of our military must stop.
- A noble force requires a noble mission.
In his farewell address, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us of the dangers of allowing these forces of evil to persuade us that war is a Good Thing:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.For the military-industrial complex war is a business frenzy. It is government consumerism run amok. We buy, they grow, and their stockholders are happy. People die. Life in Baghdad sucks. Life in Walter Reed Army Hospital sucks. We could spend more money to improve those things, but we're already strapped for cash paying it to those cronies.We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. [1]
The cronies benefiting in this ignoble mission in which our President has most successfully thrust our country are contractors: Blackwater, Haliburton, and the likes. [2] They, and the gun and plane makers, are to blame for this conflict and for the lives lost because of its undertaking.
Go capitalism! Mission accomplished!
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Thanks, RoseCovered Glasses, for reading, and for your insightful comments. (In fact, I worked for SAIC from August 2001 to mid-2005, but contracting for EPA - mostly ground-level ozone efforts. I once saw an internal memo soliciting contributions to the SAIC PAC - I bristled.)
The question that naturally follows is this: what will bring down the MIC? The answer is "a lack of funds" (unless you prefer the nuclear annihilation theory). But from where will this lack of funds come? It can either come from the tax base in the form of an economic crash, or from politicians weaning themselves off the system. The former will be more definitive and decisive, but nobody will plan it. The latter will be much too slow for my taste, but if it's fast enough to keep that crash from happening, it's better than the alternative. I would prefer to at least have some faith in politicians to do what's right - and make sure we let them know exactly what we want.
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