Eisenhower Warned: Security and Defense Industry Will Bankrupt USA @maddow @ezraklein #teaparty #gop #dems @bluegal

real predators feeding on our decline — the military-security industry — are feasting

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real predators feeding on our decline — the military-security industry — are feasting

Rachel on Osama and money: "The goal of Al Qaeda was to bleed America to the point of bankruptcy"

"According to bin Laden, the goal of Al Qaeda was to bleed America to the point of bankruptcy. That was his grand strategy" (6:35 in the clip). She titles her report "On Our Terms, Not His". On his terms, we lost, right? After all, isn't that what the Reagan of our myths did to the old Soviet Union — get them to spend themselves into bankruptcy? Food for thought, though I don't hold out hope for our digesting it. The real predators feeding on our decline — the military-security industry — are feasting. They're unlikely to allow the process of decay to stop until the last drinkable drop has passed their lips. And we're unlikely to stop them. Read more at www.americablog.com