Fellow Gregory A. Daddis breaks down the falsehoods and self-promotion featured in David Petraeus’ most recent Foreign Affairs opinion piece.
My fellow Americans, we have now reached the point in our collective history where we face three certainties: death, taxes, and ever-soaring spending on weaponry and war.
We need to remember who we are, or perhaps who we want to be, as a people…Do we really want to be the world’s largest dealer of arms? Is that really the best way to serve the American people?
We need to tell Americans their very future is being stolen from them by wanton military spending.
Putin’s actions…are being seized upon by the military-industrial-congressional complex as proof positive that Pentagon budgets, already in the stratosphere, must soar higher yet.
The hot topic in Washington these days has been the worsening “New Cold War” with China.
There is nothing angelic about a Predator or Reaper drone, nor is salvation to be found at any end of a Hellfire missile.
Hyper-militarization and ever-expanding military spending is the one bipartisan issue in Congress.
The Senate just passed a record-setting ‘national security’ budget, making Americans anything but safe.