For those who can’t get enough of war for whatever reasons, the surest way to keep utilizing American soldiers, support, advisors, intelligence, and armaments is to continually increase the monies so devoted to the “defense” of the United States. The elephant in the room, though, is the seminal fact that the United States is not currently under attack, hasn’t been under attack, and would appear to be quite secure that its borders will not in the foreseeable future, be attacked. So when it comes to the Defense budget of this nation, it would be more appropriate to admit that the massive amounts of billions of dollars devoted to defending this nation are mainly not being used for defense but rather are utilized so that America can continue to assert its dominance over the world, to get those recalcitrant nations to march to the beat of American drums, which, in theory, is beneficial to Americans, though it would appear that in actuality this isn’t true, because not only are global empires expensive to maintain, but it has to be admitted, that those that demand obeisance primarily through the use of the sword and sanctions, are the very same, that have placed themselves in the position of blowback, in one form or another.
So too, the more that America involves itself in wars, through its surrogates or directly, the more that it removes the good will that other nations might have towards it, and replaces such with the very opposite. This signifies that for all those who would like to see America be far less bellicose, the quickest and surest way to achieve this, is to reduce its gargantuan Defense budget, because when it comes to budgets, those who receive the monies, have an inherent obligation to justify those expenditures, so that, when monies are devoted to defense, those that are the recipients of such, make it their point to use that money by engaging “enemies” the world over, as sure proof that these defense monies have not been spent in vain.
Indeed, it has to be admitted, that generals aren’t interested in looking at shiny new military toys, and doing nothing with them. Additionally, they aren’t interested in having soldiers who essentially have little to do, but rather they want to prove that these tools need to be used and utilized in a way that makes a big scene, or else they fear that the allocation of money to their respective departments will dry up. This signifies that wherever the Military-Industrial-Technology complex can get its noses involved, it surely will not hesitate in doing so, putting not only our soldiers at risk, but also putting the principles of our nation to the test, as to whether or not, this is really the epitome of freedom and liberty, or in contrast, is something far more sinister. As it stands, every dollar devoted to the Defense budget is essentially a dollar taken away from the welfare of the people, and to believe that all those billions of dollars are necessary for the appropriate defense of this nation is to believe the mythology of what America professes to be, but not its reality.