In 1950 Paul Nitze, Undersecretary of State for Policy drafted a National Security Council document-NSC 68. The document read, " Without an expansion of military spending, the United States would face a decline in economic activity of serious proportions".President Eisenhower warned of the growing menace of the " military -industrial complex" in a 1959 speech.
In 1997 The Project for the New American Century was launched by the dyspeptic gang now in power. The PNAC mission statement includes, " We need to increase defense spending significantly to perserve and extend an international order which is friendly to our security, our prosperity and our principles". The" military- industrial complex" have become hypertrophies ( 20-30 % of GDP) and are ripe to go the way of all hypertrophies- EXTINCT.
Are there any candidates that are not owned by this mutation? Can't " military-industrial complex" be replaced with " eco-sustainable complex"? Please speak up. There are many who will follow.
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