Greg Snyder
January 23, 2018 ·
What is National Security?
Is it having nuclear weapons that can annihilate whole cities?
Is it having covert troops and advisors that Americans don’t even know about in almost every country of the world “to protect our interests”.
Is it supporting and propping up despotic regimes that will in turn be our “allies”?
Is it funneling more and more of the discretionary federal budget into “the defense sector” of the economy for defense systems that we don’t need that takes money away from doing things here at home that are desperately needed, like funding education or rebuilding our infrastructure?
Is it putting money into research and development of sonar weapons systems that are used in the oceans which disorient, deafen, and kill an untold number of marine animals probably causes mass beachings of whales and other sea life?
Is it spending money lavishly on all of the items listed above and then not adequately funding troops when they come home after serving the country and are not given adequate pay and benefits and are neglected by Congress?
Are you afraid that some force, or some country is going to come over to the United States and somehow take it over and force Americans into submission?
The reason I ask that last question is because there is a lot of paranoia and weird thinking around the issue of National Security. A lot of misinformation and paranoid ideas are disseminated and there is a lot of insecurity about safety. But, what is real, and what is faulty thinking? Americans really need to take a long hard think about this because it’s a skeleton that they just have not dealt with honestly.
National Security has been used for a long time by ALL of our politicians to basically give the defense industry a blank check to do what it will. It has nothing to do with the actual security and safety of the country.
Americans need to wake up and question this practice and think in realistic terms about what true national security is and how it can be implemented in a responsible way that does not brake the bank or cause the country to go without the things it needs at the expense of having needless weapons systems that are wasteful, that squander resources, and that invite the rampant fraud that causes the Pentagon to “lose track of” and not account for trillions of dollars that just somehow disappear.
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