A middle class is essential to a free society; a war state is really about transferring wealth from the middle class to a criminal elite, thus fueling both arms sales and the need for a welfare state. This is an excellent article describing how this process, which is a natural by product of the military-industrial complex, works. -- KM


Excerpt: As I write, the House of Representatives is passing a "supplemental" war-funding bill -- an event that one would think ought to be the occasion for a renewed debate on the war, whether to end it or, as John McCain would like, to escalate it. One, however, would be quite wrong. The halls of Congress are virtually silent, this election year, as a war three-quarters of the American people oppose continues and threatens to spread. As for the discussion in the media: check out this piece in The Politico -- which is chock full of discussion about the bill's non-war related add-ons, and barely mentions the war as an issue, except as a bargaining chip.

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