Responding to George F. Will's column in the Sacramento Bee 7/28/23 "It's time for the US to end the 'era of the Great Distraction'"
Mr. Will is the distracter here. He cites the inadequacy of the US military budget and says we could dedicate more of our GDP to things military. What he doesn't mention is that the military budget is three times China's and ten times Russia's–more than the sum of the next ten nations’ military budgets, and many of those are US allies..
Will also says we used to have more than ten thousand defense firms. Could the consolidation into the defense industry oligopoly impair actual production? Could the US be wasting money to ensure the military-industrial complex gets ever higher profits? Could Senator Wm Proxmire's old book about the defense industry--"Report from Wasteland"--be prescient?
The US is responsible for more than 80% of the military aggression since World War II. Could making peace actually be cheaper? Gee, I wonder.
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