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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (267943)1/11/2006 2:36:10 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1572395
 
Re: I think the amount of influence the Pentagon exerts is dependent mostly on the president. I've come to realize there is a climate of paranoia in this country that is encouraged by some presidents and nurtured and supported by the Pentagon. I think it must have developed after Pearl Harbor. Its what makes this country crazy and our foreign policy somewhat irrational....... again dependent on the president.

Come on! The US President is a mere transient within the US power structure, whereas the Pentagon/military is a perennial, overarching bureaucracy that somehow feeds upon its own, undemocratic logic.... Actually, the US military is like the water that the fish don't notice anymore: US society revolves around military life and events much more than its European counterpart.

The Pentagon is made up of bureaucrats. Bureaucrats get real attached to their jobs. If a president tells them to do something or not do something, they will do it or not do it whether they like it or not. I repeat.......the importance of the Pentagon varies between presidents and the ideology of that president. Does the Pentagon have a certain degree of power? Of course, it does.......any bureaucracy does. Does that power override the president's power? I don't believe that's correct. Is the US militaristic? Yes. That gives the Pentagon more power than it might have in a country like Luxembourg. But again, I don't think that power overrides Congress or the President.

I've noticed at times in your posts that you tend to share the paranoia of the right. There is conspiracy and danger but I don't think its quite as widespread as you are wont to believe.

ted
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