Re-ordering America's Priorities /
Reducing U.S. Military Budget
"Much of our foreign policy is driven
by insatiable corporate pressures to sell military hardware to
both the Defense Department and directly to foreign dictators.
This happens even if it goes against the interests of our country,
taxpayers and the principle of prudently allocated public budgets
"Fifty years after World War II, tens
of thousands of our troops are still in Europe and East Asia,
defending prosperous nation allies who are fully capable of defending
themselves against non-existent enemies. Yet, useless massive
weapons systems remain on the drawing boards to further mortgage
our fiscal future and drain money and talent from long overdue
civilian projects."
"President Bush declared the end of the
Cold War 10 years ago and we still have a Cold War budget. We
still have a budget that's going over $300 billion as if we still
have enemies called the Soviet Union. When are we going to demobilize?
What about the peace dividend?"
Ralph Nader
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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual
state of fear-kept us in a continuous
stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous
foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly
rally behind it ..."
General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
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" The two-war strategy is just a marketing
device to justify a high [military] budget. "
Retired Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill McPeak
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