Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
Even When It Loses, the Pentagon Wins
They’re doing it again. Remember the Peace Dividend after Vietnam? Right, it never happened. Now with another war finally ended, here we are again. On this show, retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel William Astore says the amount of money shoveled to the military is so inconceivable, it’s too big to question. Words like “full spectrum dominance” may make the sale but the reality is the just-ended War on Terror served to amplify terror. And this rhetoric of a new Cold War. The truth is America is weakening itself, Astore says patriotism requires a return of the old Questioning Authority.