“A new defense bill crammed with political pork smashes records, but you likely didn’t hear the news, because War is Good again.”
“If you questioned the size of the defense budget in 1956, the answer would be, ‘Are you some kind of commie?’ Today, ‘the shoe is kind of on the other foot,’ says Mott. ‘In the Cold War, it was the leftists at home you had to keep an eye on. Now, it’s the reactionaries.’ In a global struggle, a cigar can never be just a cigar, and there’s no such thing as just a defense budget. There’s only the question, ‘Whose side are you on?’”
(A great article by Matt Taibbi)