well, the obvious question, powerclown, is whether you have the same kind of reaction to, say, current levels of military expenditure, which follow from the fact that the military has never quite gone off cold war status, which makes no sense except insofar as it benefits the patronage system which depends on this state of affairs, and which typically supports republicans.
you know, the center of republican-style military keynesianism.
what's been in place since the reagan period.
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