The U.S. taxpayer is now carrying a gigantic burden. Nearly one-third of the nation's budget goes to the military. We cannot afford guns and butter. The nation cannot go wild on military expenditures and also afford to care for old people, poor people, disabled people, farmers, or students. Twenty-five percent of the people in this country are now functionally illiterate.
Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.
They know that people die by the thousands in these activities, but claim that they are nevertheless necessary to maintain U.S. security and the U.S. standard of living. The owners of the Washington Post long ago acknowledged that the Post is the government's voice to the people. The major function of secrecy in Washington is to keep the U.S. people and U.S. Congress from knowing what the nation's leaders are doing. Secrecy is power. Secrecy is license.