The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised — a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o’erleaps its improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide.
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In all actual U.S. wars, the people have been net losers; in each instance, they would have been better off if the war had not been fought. [...] The total amount of all defense-related spending greatly exceeds the amount budgeted for the Department of Defense. [...] Alongside the entrenched military-industrial-congressional complex, the government has built during the past five years a completely new and even more menacing apparatus, the security-industrial-congressional complex. [...] Considered strictly as a way of sustaining human decency, war gets a failing grade every time, because it invariably magnifies the malignity that it purports to resist. [...] According to the CBO’s report, in the current fiscal year the U.S. government is gorging on some $2,142 billion of revenues, consisting of taxes, fees, charges, fines, and other species of extractions from the people’s purses. [...] By one calculation, the government’s total military-related outlays in fiscal year 2006 will be in the neighborhood of $840 billion. [...] Although the public may appreciate that $401.3 billion is a great deal of money, few citizens realize that it is only part of the total bill for defense. [...] |
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