Ending America's Wars
W.J. Astore
Yesterday, I went on Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen to discuss ways of ending America's wars. Click on the link below for the podcast.
http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/can-it-happen-now-real-national-security-an-end-to-endless-wars/
We discussed the Biden administration and its approach to foreign policy, the Afghan War, the legacy of the Vietnam War, the military-industrial-congressional complex, and similar subjects. That rare word, "peace," and that rare politician, George McGovern, truly a man of vision and guts, also get a mention.
Ending war is all about getting the profit out of war. General Smedley Butler knew this -- yet America's generals today love their massive "defense" budgets, this year soaring to $740.5 billion.
Another point: Look at the ongoing crisis in Texas with its frozen and failing power grid, lack of potable water, and so on. Why is America building more nuclear weapons when it needs to be upgrading its power grids and related infrastructure?
I know: stop making sense!