By Bill Bonner
I can recall thinking, when I got out of
the Army in 1946, Well, that’s that. We won. And those who come after us
will never need do this again. Then came the two mad wars of imperial
vanity — Korea and Vietnam. They were bitter for us, not to mention for
the so-called enemy. Next we were enrolled in a perpetual war against
what seemed to be the enemy-of-the-month club. This war kept major
revenues going to military procurement and secret police, while
withholding money from us, the taxpayers, with our petty concerns for
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
He might have added another petty concern: national solvency.