In a down economy - jobs matter.With our current level of employment within the military being about 1.4 million people on active duty and another 670,000 civilians - would a large reduction in our war activities create an even worse problem with unemployment?
Added to this, there are another two million civilians receiving benefits for their past active duty.
Being the world's largest exporter of weaponry - how big of an impact would peace have on one of the few American industries which still actually makes anything?
Aren't many of the weapons made by us also being used against us?
How much wealth is spent to maintain all of our military bases worldwide?How much do we waste by ensuring that parts for weapons are made in many states in the Union and then assembled on sight instead of in only one or two plants?
How many contractors rely on government funding to ensure their profits?
Maybe the naysayers were correct in saying that this is not a war for oil.
Maybe what this actually is is a war to ensure employment for a country that seems to produce little more than conflict.
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Hello Uncle black,
You hit on something very big. Many may not know that before the invasion of Irag, many of the original "contracts" went to a select group (about thirty friends and associates of the administration), under the "disguise/explaination" that they had to keep the invasion a secret. Well, a deeper look into the owners/CEO's of those companies will tell the true story.
Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex.
I mean really, what would he know about that? Why would we listen to him?
It might be a war about oil, but what do we really get from it?!?
What would happen if we bought all of those troops home and those tax dollars they spent in other economies were spent in ours? What would happen if we weren't running around playing the world's policeman?!?
Our government's foreign policy seriously needs an enema.
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