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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 (17120)	4/22/2004 11:22:58 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Well said. I think part of the problem is that the Democrats are also in bed with the Military Industrial Complex, and have helped it develop well beyond the scope that it should in a democratic society, as they don't want to appear to be soft on defense. Lest we forget that there are more millionare Ds than Rs in Congress. Perhaps the Rs are more prone to supporting military adventurism and spending, but the Ds can hardly be called the "peace party", remember who got us involved in Viet Nam? We would need a Green President to really dismantle the MIC and security state that has been created in the U.S. over the past 50 years (the one that Pres. Eisenhower feared would devlope), and we know that's never going to happen. I think the big problem today is that the MIC must find ways to justify its existence. Back in the cold war days even a peace patriot and true liberal would have a hard time making a case for going soft on defense in the face of the meanacing Russian bear. But, now it's become totally convoluted, to the point where the MIC needs to create jutifications for their existence. The U.S. knew Saddam was building up troops on the border with Kuwait in 1990 and knew he was threatening to invade, and just let it happen (MIC looking to further it's existence?). I agree with you that they tried to tear down Clinton any way they could as he posed a minor threat to their existence. Many would argue that the MIC knew 9/11 was coming and just let it happen to justify their existence. That argument doesn't sound so looney when you consider some of the pre-9/11 intelligence warnings that are now being revealed, like the 8/6/01 PDB and other intelligence reports, and the fact that the enormously complex PATRIOT Act was ready for vote so soon after 9/11. The book, "Noone Dares to Call it a Conspiracy" released during the Viet Nam era in 1972 certainly rings true as to how the MIC has developed and maintained it's power, long after the major threat to the U.S. (the Soviet Union) had disappeared.