When, if ever, will the dkos stop flashing that ad for aerospace industries? I honestly have never minded ads on this site- bills have to paid, pies have to be thrown, and sometimes an ad might alert you to a worthy product.
However, this ad seems sinister and wrong. It is more intrusive than any other ad that has ever run on the dkos. You can't avoid it if you want to hang out on this site. And what does it advocate? It advocates war and militarism and the military-industrial complex.
If you click on this ad, you are taken to a white paper, which lays out what the "aerospace" industry wants- namely, a military buildup. And in such charming prose! With such faultless reasoning! I think that Donald Rumsfeld himself writes their copy.
Defense modernization is not optional. To defend America’s global interests in 2018 and beyond, our military must be able to project its power globally, around the clock, in any weather. We must be able, for example, to ensure energy supplies can pass through the Straits of Hormuz unimpeded. Our free trade must not be blocked on the open seas, and our economy...must not be impeded by foreign aggression.... America’s armed forces must be able to meet any and all challenges to our security, safety, freedom and prosperity, as they always have in the past. America has deferred defense and aerospace modernization to the point that modernization and recapitalization are increasingly lengthy and expensive. The bill is now due. If we want to be able to influence events and protect our interests overseas, we must revitalize the "arsenal of democracy" through consistent defense investment.