(November 22, 2021 at 8:48 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote:(November 22, 2021 at 8:25 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Do you think the military is responsible for making those decisions? I hate to break it to you, but it's like a half a dozen Boeing executives, three or so lobbyists, and (maybe) a congressman who decide that the entire country should do those things. Then they pass their orders along to a few generals, and the rest of the American population.
I don't know who actually makes the decisions.
I am aware that president Eisenhower warned America about the military-Industrial complex as he left office. America ignored him. Probably a coincidence that the US today spends more money on 'defence' than any nation on earth. (in dollar terms)
"Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure."
--Henry David Thoreau (1849)
