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Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 08:53 PM Sep 2013

How do you break a war addict's addiction to war?

There are rehab programs for just about every dependency imaginable, drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, est.

So why aren't there any rehab programs set up to get the war addicts in Washington off of war?

Could you image how much better off this country could be if we weren't wasting so much time and money on this destructive addiction to war?

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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
1. Find a way to wean the economy off of war profits.
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 08:54 PM
Sep 2013

War is big bidness. Just check the states with military bases and with industries which supply the military.

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
4. In order to get rid of the war dealers, you have to get rid of the war addicts
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 09:02 PM
Sep 2013

As long as there are war addicts are in need of a fix, there will be war dealers out there to hook them up.

None of the war addicts in Washington are even thinking about transforming their spending from war to something that is actually useful, in fact they are looking to cut domestic spending in order to increase funding for their addiction.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
12. The "war addicts" in Washington are
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 04:21 AM
Sep 2013

hooked on power and money. Those in office who make those decisions like being in office and the perks and power it gives them, and the lobbyists from the defense industries like access to the power they create. That whole system is awash in money and profits. War is waged for the same reasons it has been throughout the history of mankind: someone thinks they are entitled to rule others or someone else has something you want for yourself so you take it or someone hurt you or yours and you want revenge. Pretty basic.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
3. Something seems to have worked with republicans. The break in their addiction may only be temporary
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 09:00 PM
Sep 2013

But they were lining up to vote against a strike on Syria. One would hope there is a more permanent solution.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
9. Remove the means. Cut the "defense" budget down to a "defense only" budget.
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 09:20 PM
Sep 2013

I figure about a 70% cut would do the trick.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
10. Let them fight with each other
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 09:21 PM
Sep 2013

in a nice sparse environment where there are not civilians, etc...maybe a large desert island..naked.

Lovely idea for a reality show..

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
13. It's good for the economy
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 04:25 AM
Sep 2013

In an interview with filmmaker Oliver Stone Argentina’s former President Nestor Kirchner recalled a conversation he had with U.S. President George W. Bush in which Mr. Bush expressed his view that war is ‘good for the economy.’ Given the context, a high level discussion over the efficacy of government programs to boost ‘the economy,’ Mr. Bush was apparently voicing a crude variant of ‘military Keynesianism,’ the theory that government military spending during WWII brought the U.S. out of the Great Depression. With WWII being one of the greatest slaughters in human history, the difference between the unintended auxiliary ‘benefit’ of the U.S. having the only industrial economy still standing as ‘the West’ was in need of rebuilding and Mr. Bush starting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq under the lunatic theory war has constructive benefits seems not to have occurred to him. Put differently, as long as ‘the economy’ for which war is considered good is Mr. Bush’s, the costs in terms of death, destruction and misery are apparently debits destined for someone else’s social accounting.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/09/obama-goes-full-bush-on-syria/

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