Monday, July 11, 2011

Why Do We Borrow to Lose Wars?

My major objection to wars is that we have lost three of them. We fight preemptively, as if we were too ashamed to admit our shortcomings as negotiators. Maybe, it is a function of a failed educational system. We can't cope with a different point of view.
Anyway, we lost our Republic in 1950 when Harry S. Truman radically increased "defense" spending to oppose the Red Menace.
Since then, we have lost our liberty in a much slower process. Suffice it to say we no longer shape our military destiny. In the Nuclear Age, the only enemy is war itself.

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