The Unsustainable Warfare State* January 30, 2008

by Will

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

January 30, 2008

The biggest threat to our national independence may be our overgrown military establishment. The huge sums required to pay for it have to be borrowed from foreign powers ? including potential enemies ? who thereby obtain the means to disrupt our economy or even foreclose on our national assets.

Maintaining a military suitable to the defense of a country our size would be an expensive challenge. But our military is not presently configured for defense; rather, it is designed to project power and conduct long-term nation-building occupations.

This is why the 2008 US military budget is more than six times larger than the military expenditures of Russia and China combined. Dr. Chalmers Johnson, author of three scholarly books examining American foreign policy, notes that the US military budget exceeds ? by roughly $100 billion ? the combined military spending of the rest of the world.

The costs of maintaining the welfare-warfare state are unsustainable. If unchecked, they will soon lead to our demise.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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