Every two-bit, banana-republic, Qaddafi-wannabe dictator knows Rule #1: the greatest threat to any country isn't always the foreign army at its borders—it’s the army inside its own borders. Give the military enough power to defend the state, and you’d better make sure it never decides it owns the state. The U.S. defense budget is strangling the life out of America like a giant anaconda wrapped around its prey—tightening its grip year after year until there’s barely any oxygen left for everything else the country needs.
Every two-bit, banana-republic, Qaddafi-wannabe dictator knows Rule #1: the greatest threat to any country isn't always the foreign army at its borders—it’s the army inside its own borders. Give the military enough power to defend the state, and you’d better make sure it never decides it owns the state. The U.S. defense budget is strangling the life out of America like a giant anaconda wrapped around its prey—tightening its grip year after year until there’s barely any oxygen left for everything else the country needs.