Pity the Imperialists
October 9, 2009
Jacob G. Hornberger
10/8/2009
Pity the imperialists. What do they do? They must realize that the longer they continue occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, the more they weaken the Empire. Hey, they don’t call Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires” for nothing.
America’s imperialists are discovering what imperialists throughout history have discovered: empires are costly. This one is no exception. Military spending on Afghanistan and Iraq and the rest of the Empire all over the world continues to soar out of control.
Combined warfare-state and welfare-state spending is producing a budget deficit of 1.4 trillion dollars. That’s the difference between what the federal government brings in with taxes and how much it’s spending.
And that’s just for one year!
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