[lit-ideas] Re: The German Way of War
- From: Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:12:15 -0800 (PST)
What do you think we do with something like a third or a half of a trillion
dollar budget spent on the military? And how do you explain that we
manufacture no consumer products whatsoever except food (now shrinking because
corn is being diverted to ethanol). Our biggest manufactured export product is
military hardware; we are in fact the world's #1 exporter of weapons of every
description. We live and breathe the military. We are a military industrial
complex since the 50's, and we have used our military preemptively,
unfortunately to no avail. Even so, if that doesn't qualify as a militaristic
enterprise, what does? Just wondering, if we go to war with China, do we ask
them to pay for it? Do we side with Japan? Does Japan pay for it? What a
mess. Anyway, here's a conversation Charlie Rose has with Sam Nunn and William
Cohen from 2/13/08 you might find interesting.
http://www.charlierose.com/home
Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andy: Change the names and date and boy does this sound like the U.S.
You gotta be kidding! (Deja vu of exchanges with Judy.) If the US were
really Nazi Germany, we'd have military bases on Mars, the Middle East
would be part of our empire, and any rogue nation attempting nuclear
power would be short its entire population.
We hold ourselves to a higher standard than fascist warrior cults.
That's why we're so hard on ourselves. That's why you write as you do,
Irene. You write as an American holding America to impossibly high
standards. Good for you!
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