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If defense spending keeps the dollar strong, it is the definition of an investment. What word would you prefer used to describe the US' empire building/maintai
by Encosia 16y ago
If defense spending keeps the dollar strong, it is the definition of an investment. What word would you prefer used to describe the US' empire building/maintaining, and why?
Even today, during two active wars, if you look through the appropriations bills you'll find that a surprisingly large amount of US defense spending is not spent on violence. Back in the cold war, the proportion spent on maintaining that detente was even greater.
- loewenskind 16y ago>If defense spending keeps the dollar strong, it is the definition of an investment. If killing or threatening to kill others keeps the dollar strong it's an investment? So in that case mafia violence is also an investment, right?
- Encosia 16y agoIs investing in McDonald's or BP not an investment? Both wreck lives too. Like I said before, acknowledging things for what they are doesn't mean that we also endorse or approve of those things. I certainly don't approve of the US' actions overseas, personally. We seem to be on a subjective, slippery slope here. What would you call it, if not an investment? You skipped that part.