Hyper-militarization and ever-expanding military spending is the one bipartisan issue in Congress.
y the time the last American troops leave Afghanistan in 2021, there are almost ten times as many contractors as there are American soldiers
If military veterans are dangerous, it’s because they feel betrayed.
The Senate just passed a record-setting ‘national security’ budget, making Americans anything but safe.
The agreement reaffirms that the only truly bipartisan issue in Washington is militarism.
Why, despite decades of disastrous wars, do Pentagon budgets continue to grow, year after year, like ever-expanding nuclear mushroom clouds?
America doesn’t lack toughness — it lacks smarts. Selling more weapons to Ukraine or Taiwan isn’t the answer. Nor are constant threats.
No matter how moral you think you’re going to be…that morality is going to be crushed by the overall immorality of the war.
It’s easy to be gung-ho about the military. It’s also easy, I think, to dismiss military service with extreme prejudice.