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Perhaps most illuminating, however, was an offhand remark about the size of SOCOM. Right now, he emphasized, U.S. Special Operations forces were approximately as large as Canada’s entire active duty military. In fact, the force is larger than the active duty militaries of many of the nations where America’s elite troops now operate each year, and it’s only set to grow larger.
–How many secret wars are we fighting? - War Room - Salon.com
This entire article was disturbing to me - and, coincidentally, on the topic that I was discussing earlier tonight with a friend.
I do not understand how the US can manage to spend billions and billions of dollars on secret military missions (disregarding the billions spent on the “war on terror” each year) yet cannot be bothered to find money to spend on its own citizens. Cutting benefits such: as Medicare/Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment, funding to services like Planned Parenthood, various governmental agencies that protect the citizens of the country (EPA, USDA, etc), educational loans and grants, AND ON AND ON - none of this seems problematic.
I really wish someone could answer this for me: if the US is unwilling to invest in ITS OWN CITIZENS, what exactly is all of this military effort protecting and serving? If the United States is not its citizens, what is it? How is carrying out military action in other countries more important than ensuring there is actually a country to protect?
