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Neil Mick wrote:
Fine. Let's just stick with this list, agree that the US is now the leading arms distributor of the world, and conclude that we're a violent, hypocritical nation: touting peace, while hawking war.
OK by you?
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John Hogan wrote:
Ummmm, no.
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But of course: you cannot
disprove anything I've stated, in the previous sentence. We ARE the leading arms distributor of the world and we HAVE engaged in a nearly unending series of conflicts, since 1840.
More than half of our personal income taxes go to the Pentagon, and our military budget is greater than the next six-largest military budgets, put together. Our economy thrives on the military, with the Pentagon serving as an economic pump for the economy, since WW2.
If war were magically erased from the world tomorrow, the US economy would collapse.