Hell Mixed With Futility
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Maybe the problem is the lack of courage among those in control to challenge the insanity not simply of the military budget but of militarism itself.
by: Robert C. Koehler
"Beyond the budget," the author writes, "is something infinitely worse — war itself, or rather, endless war." (Photo: SoulRider.222/flickr/cc)
Oh, the normalcy of militarism! Our annual financial hemorrhage to this complex menagerie of institutions — from the Pentagon to Homeland Security to the Nuclear Security Administration to the CIA and its secret expenditures — must not be seriously questioned in the corridors of Congress, even though, all things considered, it comes to almost a trillion dollars annually.
Call it the Defense budget, smile and move on.
Even the current “liberal r...