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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (17024)	4/22/2004 6:48:10 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I guess it was just inevitable that the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) would eventually take over America like it has over the past two decades. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Eisenhower was no dummy. He had an especially legitimate point of view coming from both a strong military and government background. He could see where things were heading. The question is, are we better or worse off as a result of all this militarism? I guess back in the days of the Cold War it was rather easy to argue that we were better off being safe than sorry. Although a lot of the estimates of Soviet military strength were way overblown under the Reagan CIA, which is why they were the last ones to realize that the Soviet Union was collapsing from within. Also, military spending was an excellent way to prime the economic pump. But, things have definitely become skewed since the end of the cold war. That was when it was time to finally reinvest in our own country. Our society suffered from decades of neglect as a result of our commitment to defeat Communism. But the MIC didn't want to relinquish it's power or gravy train, so we have Saddam, Kosovo, Terrorism, etc. All sorts of boogeymen to justify high levels of military spending. George Orwell's 1984 is a pretty good description of American society in the early 21st Century, a society that lies and deceives and creates enemies to justify military spending that benefits an elite inner circle (the Bush cabal and other fellow travelers), especially with the doublespeak about WMDs and the shifting friends and enemies (Saddam once friend, now enemy; Russians once enemy, now friend).