An emphatic example shows how deeply the US establishment considers war a permanent and unquestionable situation
globinfo freexchange The following example shows emphatically to what degree war has become a norm for the US establishment. David Stockman was hosted by the Fox Business Network to speak about the deficit and managed to upset the whole panel with his clear 'anti-war' positions. Below, a part of the discussion and commenting. Stockman states: This military spending is crazy. If you take all the hostels in the world, China, so-called hostels - I don't believe it - 200 billion, Russia 70 billion, Iran 12 billion, the whole GDP of ... He gets interrupted by the host with a ridiculously simplified argument, without even mentioning the source of this argument: What do you have to say about the fact that 50 percent of the planes in the navy are not flyable? But things are getting worse for her because ready-to-respond Stockman gives a straight and reasonable answer: That's because they are conductin