Isolationism prefers limited context.
Fast forward almost 60 years from Pearl Harbor, and the US military-industrial complex is now so firmly entrenched that the foreign policy platform of the current US administration has been written by none other than a top executive of Lockheed Martin, Bruce Jackson. With all the money at stake, however, there is little chance Star Wars will retire anytime soon. And there is the issue that many US voters seem to enjoy the false sense of security promised by missile shields, so much that the political question has not been whether to keep the Star Wars program, but rather by how much to fund it. Heather Wokusch is a freelance writer.