I had some other war links but this sort of says all I can handle about this today.

The War that Destroyed America

In the coming years, trillions of taxpayer dollars previously earmarked for non-military expenditures will be siphoned off to feed the voracious appetite of the Grendelesqe US military-industrial complex. And for what purpose? Billions more dollars for a grandiose national missile defense instead of billions for the tools the young Special Operations warfighters, who will inevitably fight and die in countries as far-a-field as Afghanistan, Iraq, Columbia and Georgia, need to do their jobs. Trillions more dollars will be directed to a military and intelligence establishment that failed to protect and defend American citizens and the U.S. Constitution on September 11, 2001. And as more billions and billions of dollars get poured into Homeland Defense, it's worth looking at The State of the Union, or should we say State of the Homeland, to see if the warfighters who return from their efforts in foreign lands will recognize the country they left. For while Americans fight on the frontiers of strange and distant lands, they do not understand that their country is disintegrating. And the numbers tell the story.
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thanks to also not found in nature