War, What Is It Good For?…The Economy?

It seems like every time you turn around there is some other threat in the world that needs our immediate attention and intervention. We are told that if we fail to act we face severe threats to our national security.

Well now the truth is starting to come out. The truth is that these “threats” have nothing to do with national security. The “threats” are economic. I am not talking about economic in the sense that our economy is threatened by foreign enemies. The threat is exactly what President Eisenhower warned about during his farewell speech.

Seen here:

We need war to boost/maintain the economy!

The Military Industrial Complex IS what’s guiding our foreign policy. If we scale back our military and adopt a less aggressive foreign policy doesn’t that mean people would lose their jobs? That was a question asked of Ron Paul during one of the Presidential debates. Now we have reports that defense contractors trying to prevent the U.S. Congress from making cuts to the defense budget by announcing layoffs in masse.

Here is the problem defense contractors need war so that the DoD needs weapons or services they provide. Without war people would lose their jobs. So in order for people to stay employed we need to be dropping bombs some where in the world, intervening in civil wars, sending troops, providing security for foreign heads of state, or blowing up bridges to rebuild them later.

Any talk of scaling back our involvement now means people should be worried that they would lose their jobs. How did we get to this point? The point where our military is more about the economy and employment than about national security.

We should support our troops and bring them home! We do not need to risk their health and lives for the sake of some defense contractor to line their pockets with money borrowed from China or The FED. Our foreign policy has more to do with special interest than national security.

It appears that President Eisenhower was more than a great general and president. He very well may be a prophet.