Why Is America Committing Suicide?

From Antiwar.com

...Their recklessness is epitomized by how the military budget came out in all the deficit dickering. As it stands, real defense cuts only kick in if the “super-Congress” fails to come to an agreement on what cuts to make. Then and only then will the misnamed “defense” department come in for something approximating its fair share of cuts. Put another way: only in the most extreme and politically next-to-impossible case will Congress even consider cutting back on its overseas empire. They’ll yank your grandmother off her dialysis machine before they’ll contemplate getting rid of “foreign aid.”...

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U.S. Warfare Boosted Q2 GDP Massively

From Business Insider.

U.S. Affords Army of Million Dollar Men But Not Postal Service

Every soldier in Afganistan costs one million dollars a year to support. We spend that kind of money to keep alive a neoconservative dream of world domination but we can't afford to have the mail delivered back home.

Read an article in Democratic Underground about our million dollar army and in cryptogon about 3 day a week postal schedules.

Or just read here how in the ruined newspaper The New York Times an opinion article discusses ways to save money with the Post Office. Does it dawn on anyone that maybe defense needs to be shrunk and the useless wars ended?