Sequester the Empire: The Pentagon Is A Swamp Of Waste And Its Bombs/Drones A Fount Of Blowback, by Justin Raimondo

From Justin Raimondo at davidstockmanscontracorner.com:

The fake debate over the misnamed “defense” budget underscores everything that’s wrong with our foreign policy, our political system, and the crooks who rule the roost in Washington.

This Washington Post piece on the politics surrounding the issue tells us everything we need to know about how the political class – and its journalistic camarilla – operates. Although the authors cite a figure – $561 billion – nowhere do we read that this is an all-time high. Yet that’s just the beginning of what’s wrong with Washington.

In any debate, one would reasonably expect the two sides to disagree, but not in this case. Both the President and his Republican opposition agree that the military budget must be radically expanded – and that the Congress needs to break its own sequestration law in order to do it. As the Post puts it:

“There’s broad consensus in both parties that the military needs more money to modernize its forces and meet its responsibilities in a world that seems to have grown more chaotic and dangerous in the past 12 months. It’s unclear, however, how Congress and the White House can come to an agreement on where to find the additional funds.”

No one in Washington is willing to admit that the rising chaos is a direct result of the US “meeting its responsibilities” to conquer Iraq, occupy Afghanistan, and undertake regime change operations in Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. That’s because they all had a hand in it.

Instead of facing reality – a political no-no in the District of Columbia – an elaborate fantasy is constructed within the framework of an illusory partisan “debate.” “The battle over the budget that President Obama will submit Monday,” the Post breathlessly informs us, “is emerging as a preview of the 2016 presidential election on national security, an area that for now appears to be the greatest vulnerability of Obama and the Democrats.”

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