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Originally Posted by roachboy
what i am curious about sometimes is how the industries that get military procurement deals are organized. because there's an argument that shiny weapon systems provide jobs---and they do----but it's not obvious americans get those jobs. and that's necessarily ok. profit uber alles. o yes.
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Well said, but... for me... For one, Military should not be a business, period. Two, of the 895 billion spent on military and security to be spent in 2011, I find about 2/3's of it to be too much and too popular. The rest of the budget is about 600. Three, I'd rather see those jobs in education or otherwise. To me that is a smaller argument in a bigger picture in which we are ignoring the wheel that is powering and causing all of this.
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Originally Posted by citadel
I don't know how much I buy into the military-industrial complex conspiracy I keep hearing about. And honestly I'm not even talking about isolationism or sticking our head in the sand, there could certainly be circumstances where intervention would be the right thing to do, even if we're not directly involved. It's the when and how, not as much as the why that gets to me.
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I would not call it that. There is no conspiracy, that denotes an unprovable but arguably plausible scenario happening in back rooms and dark cars amongst invisible men and organizations. This is just good business, its no secret. Just like everything else going wrong. It's money, its always money or power, period. We're in here and theres talk of isolationism, this is so far beyond that. We're always in conflict of some sort or another.