Reply #5: Ever since the end of WWII... [View All]

[punpirate]

... and the "communist scare." Democrats and Repugs alike have fostered a military and intelligence services which are essentially offensive in nature. Remember that the current neo-cons received their tutelage under "Scoop" Jackson of Washington state, who was perceived as being the arch-hawk of the Democrats.

That situation has only gotten worse over time. No one in the House or the Senate significantly challenges the military-intelligence-industrial complex without having their candidacy threatened (usually, first, by threatening jobs in their district).

What you have above is just a DLC/Wall Street consortium to press a Democratic version of Bush's imperial ambitions.

Cheers.