“One of the jokes of our era is the Republican Party’s claim that it favors ‘small government.’  It loves big government — the bigger the better — as long as we’re talking about the military-industrial complex.  And lest anyone claim that we’re now a can’t-do nation with a can’t-do government, it’s simply not true.  Increasingly true, however, is that governmental ‘doing’ only happens these days when the U.S. military is doing it.  This is, of course, the definition of a militarizing society.  And yet, let’s face it, the Pentagon’s ability to create infrastructure remains impressive — and something Americans know remarkably little about.”

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175588/tomgram%3A_nick_turse,_the_pentagon’s_bases_of_confusion/

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