Marcus G. Raskin, a Nation editorial board member, is the author of more than twenty books and the editor, with Gregory D. Squires, of the recently published Warfare Welfare: The Not-So-Hidden Costs of America’s Permanent War Economy (Potomac Books 2012). He is a former member of President John F. Kennedy's National Security Council staff and the co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC.
The broader costs—and the corruption of our fundamental values and identity as a nation—are usually ignored.
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