And the roads the parent commenter speaks of... remember Eisenhower's highway system was built as part of national defense. And without military conflict over

And the roads the parent commenter speaks of... remember Eisenhower's highway system was built as part of national defense. And without military conflict over the last 1 million years, human evolution would not be something to be admired. But when we have in front of us the longest military conflict in US history being against loosely organized foot soldiers living in tents, something is clearly wrong. If we look at how great thinkers had to tease out right answers from wrong--Tesla for example had a lot of wrong ideas and bad experiments, but eventually he came across brilliance. The benefits we see here from military conflict all came from real competition, and the troubles we can see here come from a consolidation of power under a global plutocracy that is consolidating power across the globe.