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We could make list of reasons the US might fight (or fund) a war it should not fight or fund.

  • Left-over cold war mentality
  • viewing the US as the World’s policeman,
  • perceiving a threat where none exists,
  • etc. etc.

It takes a very special anti-free-market pro-Marx mindset set to throw all those possibilities aside and declare “Congress is a puppet and the defense industry is pulling the strings.”

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Even if a person were convinced of that,
it would take a special kind of stupid (Hollywood stupid?) to decide that the solution lies in demonizing the defense industry. “We need better government” vs “Attack attack attack something in the American free market.” Those are two very different responses.