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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (208089)11/9/2006 12:32:26 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The military-industrial complex will not let go of its money and power even if it means destroying the republic and the world with it.

There is a lot of truth to that - this Military Industrial Complex is really no different from other big corporate interests such as the tobacco industry. All these industries make their living eventually by installing huge hierarchies of parasitic middlemen and screwing people. The Military Industrial Complex has a lot more money than the tobacco industry and can use the fear factor that Hermann Goering talked about. But the outright lies fed the public, that works the same in every large industry.

Some are more harmful than others is all and it's never all black and white. The internet was developed in the context of this complex after all.

But Smedley Butler was right when he said that "War is a racket".
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