Masters of War: The Absurdity of the Military Budget

There's a narrative out there that is pushing some sort of line about our "depleted military". It constitutes an outright lie. 

In fact, we could cut our military budget IN HALF and still be the largest military spender in the entire world. 

Put another way, the United States spends more on it's military than the world' s next seven largest spenders. . . COMBINED. 

I think it is safe to say that this emphasis on war constitutes a moral crisis of epic proportions. 

Circling back to some MLK quotes from 1968: 

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

"Now, when I say questioning the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.


For further reading, the NYT has good coverage of this phenomenon (link): America's Military Budget

Interesting to note that Obama was no light spender either. In fact, no president has been since Carter, really. In fact, Carter cut the defense budget by 6 billion in his first month in office. 





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