The below was written long before Coronavirus raised its ugly head; now it pertains, in spades. We are seriously in debt arising from the Coronavirus; and that indebtedness will continue to rise. The Pentagon will have no choice but to tighten its belt.
All this is a way of saying: ENOUGH! Enough of America's trying to police the world, when our own infrastructure and educational system, the paragon and paradigm of the entire free world, is decaying. Enough of the U.S. building of the Pentagon four times more than the other nations combined: China, Russia, Great Britain, and France. And when I say enough, I mean enough of the Pentagon's spending, when it comes to the detriment of American spending insofar as infrastrucure: roads, bridges and the like is concerned; not to mention education, and medicare for the elderly (remember: that includes members of the Greatest Generation, and how they're passing from the scene) and so on.
Jesus taught that God is love: How can we reconcile that, in which America is involved in so many conflicts: in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen; the standoff with Russia in the Crimea Peninsula and the Ukraine. Not to mention the tense standoff with North Korea. Nor did I mention Central America, in which we have interfered for more than a century; the blood of many thousands is too thick to wash it all off. And the conflict in Viet Nam and the rest of what was once romantically named Indo-china; cost upwards of three million lives. WE did that. Americans did that.
You have General Dwight Eisenhower's famous warning about the rise of the military-industrial (and political) complex: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
Another general put things this way: "Our government has put us in a perpetual state of fear---kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor--- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil...to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters never have seem to have happened, seem never have been quite real."
The source of that quote is General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
We ought to ponder those words, of “Ike” Eisenhower or Douglas MacArthur; very seriously.