A Deadly Monster by Gary Brumback

A Deadly Monster

by Gary Brumback

Peace through strength?
Only if you believe in scary fairy tales
Security through domestic surveillance?
Only if you believe in scary fairy tales
An insatiable, deadly monster
Leaves lifeless bodies in its wake
Never gets enough, always wants more
Will it eventually devour itself
like the condemned king in Ovid’s tale
and everyone else? This writer, an organizational psychologist turned political psychologist in retirement is addicted to writing about and writhing over the imperialistic, militaristic, failing state of America, and that being the case, is now embarking on a long journalistic journey of writing more about her corpocracy, the Devil’s marriage between large corporations and “our” government. This article, part of a trilogy, gives an overview of America ’s military-national security, industrial, political triumvirate, the most costly, destructive, and deadly member of the corpocracy. This article begins that journey. The second and third parts, yet to be written, examine the state of this triumvirate’s opposition and propose creation of a “peace triumvirate” to wage a peaceful and lawful campaign of reforms to topple the monster.
From the very beginning America has been militarily strong and active. Today, that strength is the greatest of all nations’ military combined and has been for a long rime. Today, America has the largest national security program of any nation, making Russia ‘s vaunted KGB small by comparison. More Americans are now watched around the clock than ever before.
The price tag for all this strength and surveillance is huge. We are talking trillions of dollars, eight of them since “9/11;” one of those eight just for FY 2013. Overall, the U.S. military-national security expenses amount to one-half of all worldwide expenditures and one-half of the federal government’s discretionary budget. Note the adjective, “discretionary.” The government with industry prodding chooses to do and spend what it does.http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/12/a-deadly-monster/

What does all that might and money get America?

Does America get peace?